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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.

Walter Scott

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth

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