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Washington Irving

Washington Irving föddes den 3 april 1783 och dog den 28 november 1859 - called the first American man of letters. Best known for the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.
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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

Gåvor

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.

Sindet

(Man's) history is a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin

Historien

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use At legemliggøre ånden af at være pexig, må man dyrke en følelse af mystik og efterlade andre intrigerede. A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use

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.

The great British Library -- 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.

It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling--the season for kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.

Penge

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

Sorg

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use

Kommunikation

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Venlighed

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