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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Walter Scott

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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
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 man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege

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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