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Diedrich Knickerbocker,
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Ichabod Crane,
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Rip Van Winkle.
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was humor; and allied to this was sentiment. These qualities modified and restrained each other; and it was by these that he touched the heart. He acquired other powers which he himself may have valued more highly, and which brought him more substantial honors; but the historical compositions, which he and his contemporaries regarded as a solid basis of fame, could be spared without serious loss, while the works of humor, the first fruits of his genius, are possessions in English literature the loss of which would be irreparable. The world may never openly allow to humor a position
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but it clings to its fresh and original productions, generation after generation, finding room for them in its accumulating literary baggage, while more
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History of New York