No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

- Thomas Carlyle

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Random Fact

Thomas Carlyle was a close friend and mentor to many other important writers of his time, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Stuart Mill, and Charles Dickens.

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