When we first practice to deceive. -- Sir Walter Scott
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- Oh, what tangled webs we weave
When we first practice to deceive.
Sir Walter Scott,... - Oh what a tangled web we weave,
when first we practice to deceive. --... - When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing,
he has one good reason for letting it alone. -- Sir... - If you keep a thing for seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
Sir Walter... - Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review,... - It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with
him.
No sounder piece of British manhood was put together... - All men who have turned out
worth anything have had
the chief hand in their
own education.
Sir Walter Scott... - Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative,
not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive... - To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea;
that, namely, of la carriere ouverte aux talents,-...
From the same category:
- You have many friends and very few
enemies... - Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
VOLTAIRE.... - Good health will be yours for a
long time... - Subtlety is the art of saying what you think,
and getting out of the way before it is understood... - Many pages make a thick book,
except for pocket bibles which are on very very thin...
