Thomas carlyle
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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