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

Walter Scott

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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
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
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
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
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
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
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

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

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