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Washington Irving amerikai író, történész és diplomata. Az USA első nemzetközi ismertségre szert tevő írója, aki jelentős szerepet játszott az amerikai irodalmi hagyomány kialakításában. Napjaink kánonjában irodalmi súlya háttérbe szorult, szélesebb körben csupán két novellája maradt népszerű. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. április 1783 – 28. november 1859
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„A szerelem soha nem vész el. Ha nem viszonozzák, visszaáramlik, és megpuhítja és megtisztítja a szívet.”

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„Édes a távoli barátok emléke! Mint a távozó nap lágy sugarai, gyengéden, mégis szomorúan hullnak a szívre.”

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Washington Irving: Idézetek angolul

“Many of the visions and revelations handed down as having been given by him are spurious. The miracles ascribed to him are all fabrications of Moslem zealots. He expressly and repeatedly disclaimed all miracles excepting the Koran; which, considering its incomparable merit, and the way in which it had come down to him from heaven, he pronounced the greatest of miracles. And here we must indulge a few observations on this famous document. While zealous Moslems and some of the most learned doctors of the faith draw proofs of its divine origin from the inimitable excellence of its style and composition, and the avowed illiteracy of Mahomet, less devout critics have pronounced it a chaos of beauties and defects; without method or arrangement; full of obscurities, incoherencies, repetitions, false versions of scriptural stories, and direct contradictions. The truth is that the Koran as it now exists is not the same Koran delivered by Mahomet to his disciples, but has undergone many corruptions and interpolations.”

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Mahomet and his successors, George P. Putnam, 1850, p. 330-331.
Mahomet and his successors (1849)

“They who drink beer will think beer.”

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Washington Irving könyv 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.”

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

“Two small aisles on each side of this chapel present a touching instance of the equality of the grave; which brings down the oppressor to a level with the oppressed, and mingles the dust of the bitterest enemies together.”

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"Westminster Abbey".
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.
Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)

“In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints. […]”

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Mahomet and his successors, George P. Putnam, 1850, p. 330.
Mahomet and his successors (1849)

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

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"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&q=%22I+am+always+at+a+loss+to+know+how+much+to+believe+of+my+own+stories%22&pg=PR13#v=onepage (1824).

“Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.”

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"Westminster Abbey".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

“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.
Knickerbocker'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.
Forrás: Washington Irving to William Irving Jr., September 20, 1804, Works 23:90.

“How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.”

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Book II, ch. 3.
Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)

“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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"Rural Funerals".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)