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• Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. -- Washington Irving
• Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
  -- Washington Irving...
• Ideas don't stay in some minds very long because they don't like solitary confinement.
• Some minds should be cultivated, others plowed under...
• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life.
  But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid....
• Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soo
  The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide....
• With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good
  but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief....
• A woman's life is a history of the affections. -- Washington Irving