Quote by Washington Irving
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dread

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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