O Caledonia! stern and wild Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

Walter Scott
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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.
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