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Thomas Carlyle: I don't pretend...

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I don't pretend to understand the Universe- it's a great deal bigger than I am . . . People ought to be modester.

Source: Remark to William Allingham, quoted in D. A. Wilson and D. Wilson McArthur, Carlyle in Old Age
-- 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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