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Washington Irving Quotes: Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.
         

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.


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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.
         



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