Quotation by Thomas Carlyle

For, if a "good speaker," never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that ... is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, historian. Address, April l2, 1866, on being installed as Rector of the University at Edinburgh. "Inaugural Address at Edinburgh," Scottish and Other Miscellanies (1915).
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