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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood!
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Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.
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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
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Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow.
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Heaven know its time the bullet has its billet
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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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come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last
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Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
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