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The Indian Empire will be lost some day, but England cannot give up Shakespeare
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- Thomas Carlyle Scottish essayist and historian (1795 to 1881)
Indian Empire will go, at any rate, some day; but this Shakspeare does not go, he lasts forever with us; we cannot give up our Shakspeare!
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↗On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1840-1841)gutenberg.org
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