The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, …

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). The Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.9, Cambridge University Press
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