I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
ANDREW CARNEGIE
Andrew Carnegie on dust
Andrew Carnegie47 quotes“I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.”
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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