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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

Walter Scott

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
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
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

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