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Quote by William Dunbar
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and my

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. – William Dunbar

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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. – William Dunbar

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[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break… – Sullivan Ballou, letter to wife Sarah, 14 July 1861

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