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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.

Walter Scott

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality

November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.

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