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More Quotes by Washington Irving
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
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 in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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.
He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
