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Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time -- this art by which even the poor can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
Source: Letter, 21 Oct 1859; in The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, 1970.-- Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Jul 14 1801-1866), Scottish letter writer; She was the wife of Thomas Carlyle known for her letter writing that was not only entertaining but of literary and historical importance.
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