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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Walter Scott

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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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Breathe Deep Repair
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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

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