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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Walter Scott

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
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
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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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
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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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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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Rise Yourself
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
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

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

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