A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1837-12-06), “On Sir Walter Scott,” The London and Westminster Review, No. 12/55, Art. 2 (1838-01)
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A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense. A review of Scott's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet, Vols. 1-6 (1837). Reprinted in Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827-1855).
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