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“To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.”
― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
― Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle

“after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head”
― Washington Irving

“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 to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.”
― Washington Irving, The Sketch Book