Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
WALTER SCOTTFrom 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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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