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Rather Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
- Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
- Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own…
- We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under…
- Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound…
- For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness…
- The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity;…
- The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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