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Those 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.

Walter Scott

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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

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