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War is the only game in which both sides lose.

Walter Scott

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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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

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