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Quotes from Countess Brenhilda in Count Robert of Paris — Walter Scott

1771–1832 Scotland

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.

Countess Brenhilda in Count Robert of Paris (1832)

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