A Commonplace Book

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The valley of the River Tweed, as the river flows east toward the North Sea, defines the Scottish Borders.[/caption]

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‘Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!’
— Sir Walter Scott

PAGE 36

‘WHAT TWO IDEAS ARE MORE INSEPARABLE THAN BEER AND BRITANNIA.’
— Sydney Smith

PAGE 32

‘I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.’
—Agatha Christie

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‘LET ME ENJOY THE EARTH NO LESS BECAUSE THE ALL-ENACTING MIGHT THAT FASHIONED FORTH ITS LOVELINESS HAD OTHER AIMS THAN MY DELIGHT.’
—Thomas Hardy