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War is the only game in which both sides lose.

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
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature

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