“Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!”

1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)

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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

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