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«Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but if once cracked can never be repaired»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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cracked, looking glass, repaired, sullied, sullying, wiped
«But with morning cool repentance came.»
«Better that they had ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn»
«And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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brute, envious, exalted, loudest, lowest, shouts, station, The Wheel of Fortune, wheel, zeal
«If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the pat»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, pat, pats, patting, steadily
«There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.»
«Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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Heaven
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billet, bullet
«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.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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exercising, half-hour, propitious, thronged, thronging, waking
«He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.»
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