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Oatmeal indeed supplies the common people of Scotland with the greatest and best part of their food, which is in general much inferior to that of their neighbours of the same rank in England.
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Chapter VIII, p. 91 (Oatmeal in England makes for great horses, in Scotland Great Men...)

 
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