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Quote by Washington Irving
The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obs

The great British Library — one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. – Washington Irving

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. – Washington Irving

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