Thomas Carlyle Quotes

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

Thomas Carlyle

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• To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Eye
  • Trivial
  • Jaundice