History, a distillation of rumour.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast...

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made...

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made...

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always...

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always...

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to...

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to...

The glory of a workman, still more of a master-workman, that he does his work...

The glory of a workman, still more of a master-workman, that he does his work...

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long...

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long...

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.