"For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light."
— Thomas Carlyle

January 1, 1970

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Carlyle, Essays, Death of Goethe. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.