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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
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