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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
Instead of saying...
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.