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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
Real good breeding,...
Vendor: LAW & HISTORY
Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me. . .
Source: Letter, 17 Jul 1844, to his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle.
-- 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.