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• They who drink beer will think beer. -- Washington Irving (1783-1859)
• A woman's life is a history of the affections. -- Washington Irving
• The almighty dollar, -- Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- The Creole Village
• Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. -- Washington Irving
• This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act v, Sc. 4...
• Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of lette
  who, like deer, goats, and divers other gramniverous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdue, and retarding their progress to maturity....
• Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.
  He, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice....
• Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
  -- Washington Irving...
• A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
  Washington Irving ['The Sketch Book', 1820]...