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.
WALTER SCOTTCommend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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