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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

Walter Scott

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
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
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
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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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

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