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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

~Walter Scott

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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: August 15th, 1771

Died: September 21st, 1832

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