I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
WALTER SCOTT
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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