I have recently been reading Thomas Carlyle's book on Frederick the Great. This biography is extraordinarily instructive and uplifting. Carlyle is an ardent admirer of Frederick the Great and the picture he draws of his life is that of an heroic epic.
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Joseph Goebbels, diary entry (23 March 1945), quoted in Joseph Goebbels, Final Entries 1945: The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels, edited by Hugh Trevor-Roper and translated by Richard Barry (1978), p. 215