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  •    A land of meanness, sophistry and mist.

    -Rochdale
      Of Scotland.'The Curse of Minerva', l.138.

  • The vice of meanness, condemned in every other country, is in Scotland translated into a virtue called 'thrift'.

    - David Thomson
      Nairn in Darkness and Light.

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