“One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.”
Sir Walter Scott
Tales of My Landlord. Incl: The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality, The Heart of Midlothian, The Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose, Count Robert of Paris & Castle Dangerous.
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