 Fire!" is given: and they blow the souls out of one another: and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest!...  Sartor Resartus - Page 159by Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
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