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Thomas Carlyle Quotes: Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
         

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.


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This page presents the quote "Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.". Author of this quote is Thomas Carlyle. This quote is about time, history, names, past, bones, pedantry, ashes,.