3 Washington Irving Quotes on Culture

Washington Irving quotes on culture

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

21. The great British Library - an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or 'pure English, undefiled' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

38. Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.