Carlyle

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    Writing is a dreadful Labour, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    History, a distillation of rumour.
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)