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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

Walter Scott

Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
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
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
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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Freedom Privilege Story
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
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself

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