The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. – Thomas Carlyle
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. – Thomas Carlyle
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle
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