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Quotes from Sketch inscribed to Charles James Fox — Robert Burns

1759–1796 Scotland

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Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks,
Do but try to develop his hooks and his crooks,
With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil,
All in all he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

Sketch inscribed to Charles James Fox (1800)

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