Quote by Thomas Carlyle
He that can work is born to be king of something. - Thomas Carlyle

He that can work is born to be king of something. – Thomas Carlyle

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The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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