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Quotation from On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle
“May they love wisdom, as wisdom, if she is to yield her treasures, must be loved, piously, valiantly, humbly, beyond life itself”
On the Choice of Books, Farewell Letter to the Students, Chelsea, 6 December 1868 (Project Gutenberg #13435)
Declining to give a valedictory address, Carlyle sends a last charge to the students through the election committee.
Citation: "May they love wisdom, as wisdom, if she is to yield her treasures, must be loved, piously, valiantly, humbly, beyond life itself" — Thomas Carlyle, On the Choice of Books, Farewell Letter to the Students, Chelsea, 6 December 1868 (Project Gutenberg #13435). (id on-the-choice-of-books-q9)
