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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 I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

~Walter Scott

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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: August 15th, 1771

Died: September 21st, 1832

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