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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Walter Scott

War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True

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