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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

Walter Scott

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
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.
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Better History Purpose Reading
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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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
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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Deal Goodness Love
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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

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