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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

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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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