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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Walter Scott

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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

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