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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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Guerdon : n. A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense.; n. To give guerdon to; to reward; to be a recompense for.

 
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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