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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Walter Scott

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
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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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

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