Thomas Carlyle's Quote - Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. – Thomas Carlyle

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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say… Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle

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Legacy

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. – Thomas Carlyle

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