NMJablonski comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NMJablonski 02 February 2011 08:45:30PM 1 point [-]

There is no greater joy than riding the words of Thomas Carlyle.

He may not always be correct (although his point above is a blow of hard-hitting truth as great as any ever written) but his phrasing, his metaphors, his analogy, are all magnificent.