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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.

Walter Scott

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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

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