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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."
"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 
For all you Bob Dylan fans...
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