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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Walter Scott

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

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