The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
WALTER SCOTTGreatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm 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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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