Quote by Thomas Carlyle
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. - Thomas Carly

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. – Thomas Carlyle

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – 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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. – Oliver Goldsmith

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When youre young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters. – Jason Reitman

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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. – William J. Clinton

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The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman

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