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The secrets of great folk are just like the wild beasts that are shut up in cages. Keep them hard and fast snecked up, and it's a' very weel or better—but ance let them out, they will turn and rend you.
The secrets of great folk are just like the wild beasts that are shut up in cages. Keep them hard and fast snecked up, and it's a' very weel or better—but ance let them out, they will turn and rend you.
Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- Sir Walter Scott
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- Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Scott. · page_453
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