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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Walter Scott

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
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
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

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