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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
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Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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