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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Walter Scott

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity

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