"Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England. It is seeing the flower gradually fade away to the naked stalk."
— Scotland

January 1, 1970

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Scotland
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Samuel Johnson in conversation with Mrs. Thrale, April 8, 1778. Cited from James Boswell Life of Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) p. 914