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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.

Walter Scott

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night

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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