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“The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man 's the gowd for a' that.”
Provenance
- Source:
- For a' that and a' that.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a645207a4392a6157f03f6f284be8d4144bc4dcab9ae60df81843968f9893609
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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