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• The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
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• One life,--a little gleam of time between two Eternities.
  -- 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...
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
  -- Abraham Lincol...