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“I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.”
— Washington Irving
“Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.”
— Washington Irving
“Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.”
— Washington Irving
“Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.”
— Washington Irving
“Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.”
— Washington Irving
“The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.”
— Washington Irving
“The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.”
— Washington Irving
“Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.”
— Washington Irving
“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.”
— Washington Irving
“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.”
— Washington Irving
“It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.”
— Washington Irving
“The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.”
— Washington Irving
“There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.”
— Washington Irving
“After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.”
— Washington Irving
“Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.”
— Washington Irving
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