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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Walter Scott

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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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Life Rise Wake Up
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

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