"Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As the bare and broken heather, And the hard and trampled sod, Whence his angry soul ascended To the judgment seat of God!"

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Source : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.105

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

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“Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise.”
“Welcome to the degeneration of my mind.”
“All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.”

Source : "Israel's 'bomb in the basement'" by John Vause, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2004.
“If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.”
“Extensions is you suddenly have long hair when you have short hair, and you can sleep with it and you have it forever, as long as you want to.”
“The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, [etc. ] the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.”
“I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.”
“Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity.”

Source : "Discovering Jeff Vespa". Interview with Jena Malone, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 14, 2014.

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