Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
WALTER SCOTTThose who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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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.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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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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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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