Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
WALTER SCOTTDiscretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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