One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
-- Walter Scott
   
Walter Scott   Name:
Walter Scott
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
Scottish
Birth:
August 14, 1771
Death:
September 21, 1832
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