Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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The man 's the gowd for a' that.[452:2]

For a' that and a' that.

A prince can make a belted knight,

A marquis, duke, and a' that;

But an honest man 's aboon his might,

Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.[452:3]

For a' that and a' that.

'T is sweeter for thee despairing

Than aught in the world beside,—Jessy!

Jessy.