Washington Irving

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Washington Irving

age

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

age

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

age

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

Washington Irving

beauty

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Washington Irving

business

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Washington Irving

change

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving

friendship

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Washington Irving

good

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

great

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Washington Irving

history

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