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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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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on! Were the last words of Marmion.
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In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
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Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
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The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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