Quote by Washington Irving
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds r

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving

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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. – 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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Libraries
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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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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. – Plato

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I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. – Bill Maher

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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Great ideas originate in the muscles. – Thomas A. Edison

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