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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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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift ones position, and be bruised in a new place. – Washington Irving

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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving

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Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. – Steven Seagal

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Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. – Aeschylus

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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