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"Time rolls his ceaseless course."
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Walter ScottI cannot tell how the truth may be; — Walter Scott
"I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as twas said to me."
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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature. He is known for his Waverley novels (1814–1831), which were, for nearly a century, among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. He is also known for his narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He greatly influenced Eu
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"Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!"
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"Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!"
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"Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade."
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"But mankind—the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.—From the time that the mother binds the childs head, till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid, have the right to ask it of their fellow-mortals; no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt."
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"Tell that to the marines—the sailors wont believe it."
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