Carlyle

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    He has no resolution, he shrinks from pain or labour in any of its shapes. His very attitude bespeaks this: he never straightens his knee joints, he stoops with his fat ill- shapen shoulders, and in walking he does not tread but shovel and slide.
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    History, a distillation of rumour.
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)