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Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.
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Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
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Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
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Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
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Chess is a sad waste of brains.
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