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Better Quotes by Walter Scott
- The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
- The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace…
- Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human…
- The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a…
- And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
- Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your…
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