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Historical literature2 quotes
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies. — Thomas Carlyle · 1830O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other. — Thomas Carlyle · 1837Political literature1 quote
Surely of all 'rights of man,' this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest. — Thomas Carlyle · 1840