It was by a great miracle of genius assuredly that Carlyle contrived to admire simultaneously two things so… — G. Chesterton
It was by a great miracle of genius assuredly that Carlyle contrived to admire simultaneously two things so irreconcilably opposed as silence and Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell was the very reverse of a strong, silent man. Cromwell was always talking, when he was not crying.
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