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Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Walter Scott

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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
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
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
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal

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