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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. – Washington Irving

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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. – Washington Irving

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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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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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Battle doesnt need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. – Proverb

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