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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.

Walter Scott

Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
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
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

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