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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
I grow daily...
Vendor: LAW & HISTORY
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing --a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Source: Letter, 29 April 1836, to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-- 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.