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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. ↗

— 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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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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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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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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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. ↗

— Walter Scott

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