Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it. - "Walter Scott"

Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.
Walter Scott

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The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small importance, but enlarging, improving and correcting information you possess, by the authority of others.
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In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
- Walter Scott