Sir William Keith

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    “Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your
    languid spleen,
    An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a
    not-too-French French bean!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
    It’s fiftie fadom deip,
    And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
    Wi the Scots lords at his feit.”
    —Unknown. Sir Patrick Spens (l. 41–44)

    “Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)