Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a mysterious kind of folk.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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