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“A prince can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man 's aboon his might, Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.”
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- Source:
- For a' that and a' that.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 571065d7a913063d0651a7d23ae29875803730313799e341a33ab7376ad08fe9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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