WIST Quotations Has Moved!A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)
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Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834) - Carlyle, Thomas | WIST Quotations
Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal. Referring to Talleyrand. Quoting Herr Teufelsdröckh. This passage first appeared in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 9, No. 54…
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