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Chess is a sad waste of brains.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.
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The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
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No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
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We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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Certainly, quoth Athelstane, women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
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