And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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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 will to do, the soul to dare.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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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?
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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