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.
WALTER SCOTTGood Night, Goodnight, Dream.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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