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Quotation from The Cotter’s Saturday Night by Robert Burns

“An honest man’s the noblest work of God”

Robert Burns (spoken by The narrator)

The Cotter’s Saturday Night, Stanza 19 (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement))

Burns quotes Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (in quotation marks in the poem) to rank the honest poor above lords.

Citation: "An honest man’s the noblest work of God" — Robert Burns, The Cotter’s Saturday Night, Stanza 19 (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement)). (id the-cotters-saturday-night-q5)

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