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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

Other quotes by Walter Scott

To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Walter Scott

Category:
Carpe Diem
Author
Walter Scott
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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

Category:
Poetry
Author
Walter Scott
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Other Quotes from
Truth
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Truth

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Whos your real friend? Its the person who tells you the truth. Thats who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that. – Bill Maher

Category:
Truth

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. – Jean-Luc Godard

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Truth

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. – Virginia Woolf

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Truth

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movies

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home. – J. K. Rowling

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When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down. – Louise Brown

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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Generalize, Generalizations