"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
-Washington Irving
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"Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.“
-Washington Irving
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"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love."
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"The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem."
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"The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind."
-Washington Irving
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"Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears."
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"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
-Robert Wyatt
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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."
-Marvin Gaye
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"I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it."
-Lucy Hale
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"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."
-John Clayton
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"There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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