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 SCOTTEach age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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