With Stupidity and sound Digestion man may front much.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 7 (1834)
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Quoting Herr Teufelsdröckh.

This chapter first appeared in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 9, No. 51 (1834-03) - Book 2, ch. 5-7.