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Nae . A craw's nae whiter for being washed. {Scotch. Proverb.}
Nae . A wee bush is better than nae bield (shelter). {Scotch. Proverb.}
Nae . But human bodies are sic fools, / For a' their colleges and schools, / That, when nae real ills perplex them, / They make enow themsels to vex them. {Burns.}
Nae . Do weel and doubt nae man; do ill and doubt a' men. {Scotch. Proverb.}
Nae . For there's nae luck aboot the hoose, / There's {W. J. Mickle.}
Nae . Great barkers are nae biters. {Scotch. Proverb.}
Nae . It's a gude heart that says nae ill, but a better that thinks nane. {Scotch. Proverb.}
Nae . Just enou', and nae mair, like Janet Howie's shearers' meat. {Scotch. Proverb.}
Nae . Let fouk bode weel, and strive to do their best; / Nae mair's required; let Heaven mak' out the rest. {Allan Ramsay.}
Nae . Love thinks nae ill, envy speaks nae gude. {Scotch. Proverb.}
 
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Geordie : n. A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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