Walter Scott - Rob Roy (1817)

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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

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If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions of the world you will never be rich.

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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

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He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare yourself.

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Civil war is a species of misery which introduces men to strange bedfellows.

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Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

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Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

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Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

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