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George Eberhart's avatar

Ye’ll no catch ane o’ the servants ganging up that stair, puir frightened heathens that they are, for fear of bogles and brownies, and lang-nebbit things frae the neist warld. (Rob Roy)

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Kathleen McCook's avatar

He is not known as well now but so many place in U.S. named for him, too. Perfect quote.

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Adele Fasick's avatar

It is nice to think that a writer has more statues than all the soldiers and politicians who are are memorialized by statues. And people don't seem inclined to tear them down. Perhaps that proves that art triumphs over politics in the long run--or maybe it's because no one wants to damage a dog.

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Kathleen McCook's avatar

I looked at a lot of statues and writers' statues aren't done much these days. I can't think of any writer who would get so much admiration today. I'd have thought there'd be more of Shakespeare, but no one really knows what he looked like. Yes, more writers and less politicians would help us all.

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elm's avatar

Amen sister!

elm

the police state generates its own enemies

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