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• The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero as a Man of Lette...
• Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero as a Man of Lette...
• In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero as a Man of Lette...
• The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero as a Prophe...
• Society is founded on hero worship.
• Hero-worship: Idol gossip.
• One monster there is in the world, the idle man. -- Thomas Carlyle
• BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan.
  Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by Dr....
• One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. GOETHE