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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Robert Burns

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

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Suspicion

Weight

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

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Fear

Labor

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

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Gentleman

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

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Man

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

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Creation

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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Disappointment

Suspense

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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Fame

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

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Violets

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

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Friend

World

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

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Uncertainty

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

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Dying

Opera

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.