Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.

Walter Scott
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  2. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. - Oscar Wilde

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  1. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  2. Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

  3. I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.

  4. My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

  5. Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

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