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«If a body can just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day and keep to that, I verily throw that he might leeve forever without dying at all, and that doctors and kirkyards would go oot o' fashion»
«Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.»
Author: James Hogg
«It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.»
Author: James Hogg
«He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.»
Author: James Hogg
«The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.»
Author: James Hogg
«A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?»
Author: James Hogg
«He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.»
Author: James Hogg
«And Charlie is my darling,The young Chevalier.»
Author: James Hogg
«A vain, idle and sinful game at which there was much of the language of the accursed going on»
Author: James Hogg
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