Quote by Walter Scott
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere worki

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. – Walter Scott

Other quotes by Walter Scott

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

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Attitude
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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

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Poetry
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott

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Age
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Other Quotes from
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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. – Ronald Reagan

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History shows that there are no invincible armies. – Joseph Stalin

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History

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. – Henry James, Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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History

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman

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History

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