“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, book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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writer, historian and diplomat from the United States 1783–1859

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