Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. ✨ Thomas Car…

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). The French Revolution, p.13, Cambridge University Press
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