# Quote — Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution

> To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

- Author: [Thomas Carlyle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-carlyle.md)
- Book: [The French Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-carlyle/the-french-revolution.md)
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> He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

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> 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.

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> History a distillation of Rumour.

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