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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.

Walter Scott

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
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
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
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
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself

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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