"Every noble work is at first impossible."
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ExistentialistsAcademics from ScotlandPhilosophers from ScotlandConservatives from the United KingdomHistorians from Scotland
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From Past and Present (1843), Chapter XI : Labour
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Thomas Carlyle
1795 – 1881
schottischer Essayist und Historiker
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