A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
WALTER SCOTTCome fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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