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Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.
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Fair play is a jewel.
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I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.
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Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
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For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.
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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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A mother's pride, a father's joy.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier Will eke with it his service.--All admit it, All practise it and he who is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
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Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.
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