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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. – Thomas Carlyle

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