Small Consequence Quotes by Walter Scott

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Walter Scott has 195 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
• Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a…
• War is the only game in which both sides lose.
• Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from…
• Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling…
• Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
• A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can…
• The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

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