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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

— Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

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The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

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

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

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