| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 5979 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Carlyle (17951881) |
| QUOTATION: | Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |
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