| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 5980 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Carlyle (17951881) |
| QUOTATION: | The uttered part of a mans life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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