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There’s one of my new poems actually – is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

Nationality : Scottish

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Nationality : Scottish

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Nationality : Scottish

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.

Nationality : Scottish

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Nationality : Scottish

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Nationality : Scottish

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

Nationality : Scottish

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Nationality : Scottish

Every time a child says I don’t believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Nationality : Scottish

Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.

Nationality : Scottish