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“It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b02635640c2e65104e8a7633bdf8f063cd87bdd3ec73a8eea481c723a5da3d40
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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