A Boat Against the Current

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Quote of the Day (Thomas Carlyle, on “Clever Men”)

“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”—Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), “Goethe,” Edinburgh Review (1828)

MikeT at 4:08 PM

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