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

6004 Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:6004
AUTHOR:Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
QUOTATION:  He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired Armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.
ATTRIBUTION:Sartor Resartus. Book i. Chap. v.