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Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

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I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

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It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.

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The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

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Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Poet

Born: January 25th, 1759

Died: July 21st, 1796

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