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Washington Irving
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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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Washington Irving
Topic(s):
Hope
"A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections."
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Washington Irving
Topic(s):
History
"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart."
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Washington Irving
Topic(s):
Imagination
"There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."
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Washington Irving
Topic(s):
Jealousy
"Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant."
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Washington Irving
Topic(s):
Humor
"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes."
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Washington Irving
Topic(s):
Great
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
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Washington Irving
Topic(s):
Great
"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."
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Washington Irving
Topic(s):
Good
"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."
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Washington Irving
Topic(s):
Change
"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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Washington Irving
Topic(s):
Beauty
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