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

Walter Scott

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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
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
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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
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
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing

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