"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
-Thomas Carlyle
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"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.“
-Thomas Carlyle
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