More from Washington Irving

  1. The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction …
  2. In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was belov…
  3. His [the author's] renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.
  4. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their h…
  5. The great British Library - an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which …
  6. A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
  7. There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging p…
  8. A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

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