A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
Walter ScottNow, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.
Walter ScottI am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
Walter ScottOne or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
Walter Scott