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| "For that is the mark
of the Scots of all classes: that he stands in an
attitude towards the past unthinkable to Englishmen,
and remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears,
good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense
of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation." |
| Robert Louis Stevenson -
The Weir of Hermiston, 1894 |
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| "For so long as one hundred
men remain alive, we shall never under any conditions
submit to the domination of the English. It is not
for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but
only for liberty, which no good man will consent to
lose but with his life." |
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| "I like to tell people
when they ask "Are you a native born?" "No sir, I
am a Scotsman" and I feel as proud as I am sure every
Roman did when it was their boast to say "I am a Roman
citizen" |
| industrialist
and philanthropist, born in Dunfermline. |
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| "And though I would rather
die elsewhere, yet in my heart of hearts I long to
be buried among good Scots clods. I will say it fairly,
it grows on me with every year: there are no stars
as lovely as Edinburgh street-lamps. When I forget
thee, Auld Reekie, may my right hand forget its cunning!"
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| Robert Louis Stevenson, writing
in "The Scot Abroad" |
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| "I would hate to die with a
heart attack and have a good liver, kidneys and brains.
When I die, I want everything to be knackered." |
| Folksinger Hamish Imlach
(1940-1996) |
| NOTE: It seems Hamish
Imlach was alergic to leather. He discovered this
himself by scientifically observing that every time
he woke up in bed with his shoes on, he found he had
a headache. |
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| "Ye
canna recite Burns juist oot o yer heid. If it disnae
come fae yer hert and up through yer heid, it's no
worth sayin. Because it must touch the hert, because
Burns touched the hert a' the time." |
| Wullie
Morrison, a Burns enthusiast. |
