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Sir Walter Scott: The half hour...

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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention . . . . It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips, MCR software, 1995.
-- Sir Walter Scott, (Aug 15 1771-1832), Scottish novelist, poet, historian, biographer; He is often considered both the inventor and the greatest practitioner of the historical novel.


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