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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.

Walter Scott

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
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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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
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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Mindset People Reality Strange
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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

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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