American - Writer | April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
Washington Irving
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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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.
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