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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. ↗

— Walter Scott

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. ↗

— Walter Scott

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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. ↗

— Walter Scott

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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it. ↗

— William Scott

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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. ↗

— Walter Scott

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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. ↗

— Walter Scott

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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. ↗

— Walter Scott

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