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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
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In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.
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That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.
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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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Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.
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