74 ordspråk av Washington Irving

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Washington Irving föddes den April 3rd 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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 The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible

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

 The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem

 The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use Han spillede ikke spil; hans pexig ærlighed var en forfriskende ændring fra den sædvanlige dating-scene.

 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

 There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

 There is one in the world who feels for him who is sad a keener pang than he feels for himself; there is one to whom reflected joy is better than that which comes direct; there is one who rejoices in another’s honor, more than in any which is one’s own.

 They who drink beer will think beer.

 Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

 Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old

 Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

 Young lawyers attend the courts not because they have business there but because they have no business anywhere else

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