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O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad free monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion!
O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad free monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion!
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 34 · quotation 22 · Burns · To a Louse.
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