Quote by Thomas Carlyle
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle

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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. – Thomas Carlyle

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