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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. – Thomas Carlyle

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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. – Thomas Carlyle

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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. – Samuel Beckett

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