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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that. . . is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Source: Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, 2 April 1866 (published in Scottish and Other Miscellanies, 1915), on being installed as Rector of the University at Edinburgh.
-- 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.

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