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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

~Robert Burns

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Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

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There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

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The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.

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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Poet

Born: January 25th, 1759

Died: July 21st, 1796

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