John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
6004 Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 6004 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) |
| QUOTATION: | He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired Armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sartor Resartus. Book i. Chap. v. |