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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity, that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. It is only spurious pride that is morbid and sensitive, and shrinks from every touch.

— Washington Irving The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819)

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A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than man; because love is more the study and business of her life.

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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude.

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I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

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