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Letter "W" » Washington Irving Quotes
«A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless -- for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
«In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.»
«Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.»
«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»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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effected, stratagem, stratagems
«Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.»
«Young lawyers attend the courts not because they have business there but because they have no business anywhere else»
«It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow»
«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.»
«(Man's) history is a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin»
«A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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edged, edge tool, keener, mellows, sharp tongue, tart, tarts
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