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“If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ae20dc2cae89913c5ca5c9e4856f771f4d1bae0e38ebf03cb92a5606dceed186
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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