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  • A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.

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    Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.246

  • There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

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    Washington Irving (2013). “The Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon”, p.111, Jazzybee Verlag

  • There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

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    Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.295, e-artnow

  • The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

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  • A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

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    "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent".
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Washington Irving

  • Born: April 3, 1783
  • Died: November 28, 1859
  • Occupation: Author
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