کارلایل، جین ولش، ۱۸۰۱-۱۸۶۶م.

Quotes

• “I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.”
• “If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: "Byron is dead!"”
• “A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.”
• “In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting, and, alas! self-seeking me.”
• “Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!”
• “Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.”

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