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John Wilson Quotes

d. 1854 Scotland

John Wilson (18 May 1785 – 3 April 1854) was a Scottish writer, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

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Also known as: Christopher North

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Music is the universal language of mankind.

Would you repeat that again, sir, for it soun's sae sonorous that the words droon the ideas?

Nae wut without a portion o' impertinence.

O for a Booke and a shadie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out;
With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cries all about.
Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde;
For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke, is better to me than Golde.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Wilson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.