Douglas/businesses

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    “Annie Laurie
    Gie’d me her promise true;
    Gie’d me her promise true,
    Which ne’er forgot will be;
    And for bonnie Annie Laurie
    I’d lay me doune and dee.”
    —William Douglas (1672?–1748)

    “One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)