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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Walter Scott

Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
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
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
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
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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 chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

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