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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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There's some are fou o' love divine There's some are fou o' brandy.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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