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More Quotes by Washington Irving
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.
He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
