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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
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
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
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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