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Quotation from The Life of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas Carlyle
“What was written remains written”
The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Preface to Second Edition (1845) (Project Gutenberg #23209 (Library Edition))
Carlyle declines to rewrite the book twenty years on and asks readers to remember when it was written.
Citation: "What was written remains written" — Thomas Carlyle, The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Preface to Second Edition (1845) (Project Gutenberg #23209 (Library Edition)). (id life-of-friedrich-schiller-q8)
