I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
More Quotes from Robert Burns:
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.Robert Burns
O wert thou, Love, but near me!
Robert Burns
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory Now 's the day and now 's the hour See the front o' battle lour.
Robert Burns
We labour soon, we labour late, To feed the titled knave, man And a' the comfort we're to get Is that ayont the grave, man.
Robert Burns
Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' o' care.
Robert Burns
Mourn, Empress of the silent night!
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