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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
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
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
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

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

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