Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer. Sir Walter Scott

Quotes November 23, 2008

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Adversity
Quotations by Sir Walter Scott

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. Friedrich Hegel

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