Who is Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, Old Mortality, The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor, and the narrative poems The Lady of the Lake and Marmion. He had a major impact on European and American literature.As an advocate, judge and legal administrator by profession, he combined writing and editing with daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. He was prominent in Edinburgh's Tory establishment, active in the Highland Society, long a president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820–1832), and a vice president of the So...
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- One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
- Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
- When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
- For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
- Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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