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“Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.”
― Washington Irving , The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

“After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.”
― Nicolas Bouvier

“Here at the age of thirty-nine I began to be old. I felt stiff and weary in the evenings and reluctant to go out of camp; I developed proprietary claims to certain chairs and newspapers; I regularly drank three glasses of gin before dinner, never more or less, and went to bed immediately after the nine o’clock news. I was always awake and fretful an hour before reveille. Here my last love died.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.”
― Samuel Johnson