Scotch thistle quotes

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... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach h ...
I've sometimes thought ... that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but so ...
Wind and Thistle for pipe and dancers
And never a ploughman under the Sun.
Never a ploughman. Never a one.
At last, on Monday the 16th of May, when I was sitting in Mr. Davies's back-parlour, after having drunk tea with him and Mrs. Davi ...
In Rangoon the heat of noon
Is just what the natives shun.
They put their Scotch or rye down
And lie down.
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to pre ...
of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
flowering above sister grass-daisies' pink tiny
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I mourn the safe and motherly old middle-class queen, who held the nation warm under the fold of her big, hideous Scotch-plaid sha ...
giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
...
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now ...
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