"Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?"
— Thomas Carlyle

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, (1866), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).