"Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."
-Walter Scott
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"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.“
-Walter Scott
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"Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."
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"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
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"Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."
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