Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. (Thomas Carlyle)

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

Thomas Carlyle

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