It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest h…

Thomas Carlyle
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). Reminiscences, p.13, Cambridge University Press
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