“For a' that, and a' that
An' twice as muckle 's a' that,
I've lost but ane, I've twa behin',
I've wife eneugh for a' that.”

— Robert Burns

The Jolly Beggars, chorus
Posthumous Pieces (1799)

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Scottish poet and lyricist 1759–1796

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