Quote by Thomas Carlyle
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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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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