Scot Quotes
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Have paid Scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.
Ben Jonson— Act iii, Scene 3.
Ricardo, writing fifty years later than Smith, showed a greater insight into the working of the economic system; but as for the subtlety (whatever demerit there may be in that!) the Scot does not lose by comparison with the Jew.
roll, eric, baron roll of ipsden— Chapter IV, The Classical System, p. 176
If you'd dip in such joys, come the better, the quicker! But remember the fee for it suits not my ends To let you make havoc, Scot free, with my liquor, As though I wore one of your heavy-pursed friends.
— Horace, Book IV. Ode XII. To Vergil. Translation by Theo. Martin.
A life given to determining the best form for the letters of the alphabet does it seem extraordinary to you? But no day passes that our eyes do not fall upon something that was influenced, and made better, by this extraordinary, eccentric Scot, and if that is not a life well spent, I should be interested in a better definition.
Robertson Davies— Edward Johnston (1960)
