“grave talk and grave humor with the doers of the craft. Building, walling, is an operation that beyond most other manual ones requires incessant consideration — even new invention. I have heard good judges say that he excelled in it all persons they had seen.”

—  Thomas Carlyle

1880s, Reminiscences (1881)

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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

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