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Quotation from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
“Indian Empire will go, at any rate, some day; but this Shakspeare does not go, he lasts forever with us; we cannot give up our Shakspeare”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture III (The Hero as Poet) (Project Gutenberg #1091)
Carlyle imagines being asked whether England would give up its Indian Empire or its Shakespeare.
Citation: "Indian Empire will go, at any rate, some day; but this Shakspeare does not go, he lasts forever with us; we cannot give up our Shakspeare" — Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture III (The Hero as Poet) (Project Gutenberg #1091). (id on-heroes-hero-worship-q7)
