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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Walter Scott

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
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?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent

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