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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Solon who wrote (7143)11/22/2000 2:22:09 AM
From: KLP  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 10042
 
He also wrote this:
Breathes there a man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there be, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair reknown,
And doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured and unsung.

From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" written in 1805 by Sir Walter Scott

"His worst is better than any other person's best".

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) the essayist praising the work of Sir Walter Scott