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More Quotes by Washington Irving
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
