Byron Scottish

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    I would rather ... have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    We’ll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
    —18th-century Scottish proverb, collected in James Kelly, Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, no. 351 (1721)