Find a man whose words paint you a likeness, you have found a man worth something; mark his manner of doing it, as very characteristic of him. - Thomas Carlyle

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Find a man whose words paint you a likeness, you have found a man worth something; mark his manner of doing it, as very characteristic of him.

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About Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (December 4 1795 – February 5 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher of great prominence during the Victorian era. His wife was Jane Welsh Carlyle.

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Alternative Names: The Sage of Chelsea
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An intellectual dapperling of these times boasts chiefly of his irresistible perspicacity, his “dwelling in the daylight of truth,” and so forth; which, on examination, turns out to be a dwelling in the rush-light of “closet logic,” and a deep unconsciousness that there is any other light to dwell in or any other objects to survey with it.

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