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Quotes by Washington Irving
- A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
- A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
- A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
- 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.
- 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.
- Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
- 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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