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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. – Thomas Carlyle

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Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. – Thomas Carlyle

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