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Famous quotes containing the words lang and/or son:

“For auld lang syne, by dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,—but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)