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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.


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ROBERT BURNS How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNS The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNS I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid ...
ROBERT BURNS There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNS Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised th...
ROBERT BURNS Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
A farewell, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll ...
ROBERT BURNS The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbea...
ROBERT BURNS His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
ROBERT BURNS The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
ROBERT BURNS Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's plou...
ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru...
ROBERT BURNS Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
ROBERT BURNS And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
ROBERT BURNS Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
ROBERT BURNS I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care fo...
ROBERT BURNS To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.
ROBERT BURNS Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
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