“No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment, — with the answer, No effects.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Pt. I, Bk. III, ch. 1.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)

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

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