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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. - Thomas Carlyl

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. – Thomas Carlyle

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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. – Thomas Carlyle

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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. – Lord Chesterfield

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Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. – Charlotte Whitton

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. – Isaiah Berlin

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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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