No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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.
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