What is a diary as a rule? ... by Walter Scott, a Scottish Novelist

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“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.”

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Name: Walter Scott

Nationality: Scottish

Date of Birth: Aug 14, 1771

Date of Death: Sep 21, 1832

Profession: Novelist

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