Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points …

Thomas Carlyle
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front? ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1855). Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle, p.195
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