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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

Walter Scott

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
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
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

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