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Windfinder
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by Windfinder » Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:24 pm
"The English are better animals than the Scots; they are nearer the sun; their blood is richer, and more mellow."
Wise man, was Jimbo Boswell.
Nick
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by Nick » Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:34 pm
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"My heart warmed to my countrymen, and my Scotch blood boiled with indignation. I jumped from the benches, roared out 'Damn you, you rascals!', hissed and was in the greatest rage ... I hated the English; I wished from my soul that the Union was broke and that we might give them another battle of Bannockburn"
(recounting a situation where Londoners had been openly mocking two Highland officers and he had jumped to their defence)
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Nick
Windfinder
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by Windfinder » Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:46 pm
Nick wrote: .
"My heart warmed to my countrymen, and my Scotch blood boiled with indignation.
Touche!
"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. "
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by bilbo » Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:37 pm
Windfinder
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by Windfinder » Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:02 pm
Dr Johnson (on Porridge): "In Scotland you eat Oats which in England we feed only to our horses."
Boswell: "Which is why England breeds excellent horses and Scotland breeds excellent men!".
(Paraphrasing.)
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by bilbo » Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:29 am
"Some animals are more equal than others...."