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"I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation."
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun / Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc.
Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain