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A quotation (probably) from Carlyle
I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22450…
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A quotation (probably) from Carlyle
I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22450…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #agreement #boredom #conversation #dialog #discussion #echo #interaction #similarity #tiresomeness
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A quotation (probably) from Carlyle
I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22450…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #agreement #boredom #conversation #dialog #discussion #echo #interaction #similarity #tiresomeness
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A quotation (probably) from Carlyle
I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22450…
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)(Much) more about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/719/
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At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…
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