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Thomas Carlyle1795–1881

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.

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Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. I, ch. 5.

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