...moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting...precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkel as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is...

...moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting...never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself when driven...

...moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting...would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. He was fain to take to the outside qf the house. 14 Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle...

...certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving (1783-1859) American author Temptation...

...didn't talk than why you did. Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind to express itself forcefully. A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only sharp-edged tool that grows keener with constant use. What isn't said can't come back to hurt. Wise...

...subdue himself. Washington Irving captured this truth in Rip Van Winkle's complaint about his wife: "A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." James' bleak assertion is compounded by two additional...

...December 7 No man can climb out beyond the limitation of his own character. -John Morley January 10 A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. - Washington Irving February 8 The eye is the window...

...epigram also appears as an entry, 1898, in Twain Notebook, ch. 31 , ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935). A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. 5 I can resist everything except temptation. OSCAR...

...moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting...never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven...

...1783-1859 4972 I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories. 4973 The Sketch Book n @n edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ISHERWOOD Christopher 1904-1986 4974 'The Common Cormorant'...