https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:24:21 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63317/ https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63317/#respond Fri, 22 Sep 2023 19:36:03 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=63317 Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 8 (1834)
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Quoting Herr Teufelsdröckh.

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