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"I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland."
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"When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious."

"Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland."

"I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff."
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"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."

"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."

"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."

"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
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