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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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Mans unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. – Thomas Carlyle

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