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Quotation from The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
“John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening”
The Life of John Sterling, Part I, Ch. I (Project Gutenberg #1085)
The first sentence of the biography records the charge Sterling left to Hare and Carlyle, and the modesty with which he regarded his own work.
Citation: "John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening" — Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part I, Ch. I (Project Gutenberg #1085). (id life-of-john-sterling-q1)
