There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity, that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
Washington IrvingSource: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819)
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity, that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
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