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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 5978 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) |
| QUOTATION: | To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents,—the tools to him that can handle them. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |
| Note 1. Carlyle in his essay on Mirabeau, 1837, quotes this from a “New England book.” [back] |
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