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Happy #BurnsDay!

"If happiness hae not her seat
An’ centre in the breast,
We may be wise, or rich, or great,
But never can be blest;
Nae treasures, nor pleasures
Could make us happy lang;
The heart aye’s the part aye
That makes us right or wrang."
One of the great close calls of literary history: struggling to maintain his family's farm, Burns had plans to emigrate to Jamaica and work on a plantation. But the enormous success of his first collection of poetry in 1786 convinced him to stay in Scotland. #BurnsDay
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