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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Walter Scott

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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.
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Deal Goodness Love
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

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