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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.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
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Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.
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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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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
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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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Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.
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Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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