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Threatened folk live long.

Walter Scott

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Still are the thoughts to memory dear.
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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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If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
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Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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