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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Walter Scott

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading

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