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Quote by Robert Burns
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the power

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. – Robert Burns

Other quotes by Robert Burns

The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And evn the rigid feature:
Yet neer with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laughs a poor exchange
For deity offended. – Robert Burns

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration. – Robert Burns

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Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. – Robert Burns

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