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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.

Walter Scott

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself

Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.

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