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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
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'Tis an old tale, and often told But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
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But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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