Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Walter Scott

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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a British novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The...

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