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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.

Walter Scott

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
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
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
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
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.

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