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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.

Walter Scott

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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

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