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Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
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
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
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery

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