Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then cent…

Thomas Carlyle
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1872). Works, p.158
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1872). Works, p.158

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