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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

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
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

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