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Quote by Walter Scott
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the

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

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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. – Walter Scott

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strength
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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

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History
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – Walter Scott

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Nature
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. – John Locke

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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Truth

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. – Aldous Huxley

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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. – Winston Churchill

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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. – Marcel Proust

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Ill get up in the morning while theyve all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and theyre really obsessed about running. Thats all they do. Theyre really boring. – Trisha Goddard

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Morning

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. – Margaret Thatcher

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Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps. – Author Unknown

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