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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

5980 Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:5980
AUTHOR:Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
QUOTATION:  The uttered part of a man’s 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.