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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. – Thomas Carlyle

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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortunes inequality exhibits under this sun. – Thomas Carlyle

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Silence is also speech. – Proverb

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