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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. - Thoma

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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Cooking, Culinary
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Thomas Carlyle
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. – Thomas Carlyle

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Happiness
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Thomas Carlyle
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. – Thomas Carlyle

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Perfection
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Thomas Carlyle
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death. – John Arbuthnot

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If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory. – Agesilaus II

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Legacy

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. – Arthur Balfour

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Legacy

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say… Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle

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Legacy

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