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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than d

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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