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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. – Thomas Carlyle

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

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