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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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal

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I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough. – Shirley Bassey

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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. – Edward Young

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