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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

— Walter Scott

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Cf. Thomas Osbert Mordaunt and John Scott of Amwell

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O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!

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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

Life of Napoleon (1827)

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

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