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“Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.”
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- Source:
- To a Louse.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 685e3abf01ca1efac6380df14898d6ee5ca39e46026d9062e822b9734500f701
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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