Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

- Thomas Carlyle

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Despite his reputation as a serious and sometimes gloomy writer, Thomas Carlyle had a keen sense of humor and was known to enjoy practical jokes and wordplay.

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