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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
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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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. – Christopher Columbus

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