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Washington Irving è stato uno scrittore statunitense.

✵ 3. Aprile 1783 – 28. Novembre 1859
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“Una lingua tagliente è l'unico strumento acuminato che migliora con l'uso.”

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Origine: Da Rip Van Winkle, contenuto ne Libri degli schizzi di Geoffrey Crayon.

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“They who drink beer will think beer.”

Washington Irving libro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

"Stratford-on-Avon".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

“His [the author's] renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.”

Washington Irving libro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

"The Westminster Abbey [The Poets' Corner]".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

“Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.”

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The Stout Gentleman http://web.archive.org/20020106095151/www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/.

“They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.”

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Book IV, ch. 241. <br class="br"> Knickerbocker&#x27;s History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)

“Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.”

Washington Irving libro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

"Rip Van Winkle".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

“I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.”

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Tales of a Traveler http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13514, To the Reader http://books.google.com/books?id=6R0GAAAAQAAJ&amp;q=%22I+am+always+at+a+loss+to+know+how+much+to+believe+of+my+own+stories%22&amp;pg=PR13#v=onepage (1824).

“The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.”

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The Creole Village published in The Knickerbocker magazine (November 1836). This is origin of the expression almighty dollar. See Edward Bulwer-Lytton for "the pursuit of the almighty dollar". Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.

“His wife "ruled the roost," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.”

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Book IV, ch. 4. <br class="br"> Knickerbocker&#x27;s History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)

“I endeavor to take things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.”

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Letter to William Irving, Jr., about his positive attitude acquired while traveling in Europe.
Origine: Washington Irving to William Irving Jr., September 20, 1804, Works 23:90.

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