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Which Quotes by Walter Scott
- There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
- 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…
- The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when…
- If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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