Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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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.
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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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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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