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Own Quotes by Washington Irving
- 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…
- The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others…
- The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are…
- Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
- Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trepass on that of others.
- I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
- Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet…
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