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?
WALTER SCOTTEach age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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