Washington Irving Short Quotes

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That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.

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Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.

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

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

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I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

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A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

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Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.

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From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

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The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

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

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The almighty dollar, that great object of universal veneration throughout our land.

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Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

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There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

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Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trepass on that of others.

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The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

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My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.

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Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

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There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

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They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.

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No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

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There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

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Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

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

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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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I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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