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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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