"History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

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History a distillation of rumor
More Thomas Carlyle quotes
"The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
"A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.