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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle

Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

December 4th, 1795 - February 5th, 1881

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