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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
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In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
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