Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most…

Thomas Carlyle
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Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1846). On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions, p.147
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Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1846). On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions, p.147

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