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“Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“O whistle, and Ill come to you, my lad;
O whistle, and Ill come to you, my lad:
Tho father and mither and a should gae mad,
O whistle, and Ill come to you, my lad.”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
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