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    "A Man's a Man for A' That", also known as "Is There for Honest Poverty" or "For A' That and A' That", is a 1795 song by Robert Burns, written in Scots...
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    mouse is a mouse, for all that" at the end of the stanza, which is a reference to another of Burns's songs, "Is There for Honest Poverty", commonly known...
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    Robert Burns (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    "Birthday Ode for George Washington" or his "Is There for Honest Poverty" (commonly known as "A Man's a Man for a' that"), Burns was well placed for endorsement...
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    is a courtyard in central Edinburgh, Scotland. It forms part of Lady Stair's Close, which connects the Lawnmarket with The Mound to the north, and is...
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  • productions such as 'My Luve is like a Red Red Rose' and 'Is There for Honest Poverty'. Other 'librettists' in the original first volume include Allan Ramsay...
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    perfection, are chastity, poverty (or perfect charity), and obedience. As stated by Jesus in the canonical gospels, they are counsels for those who desire to...
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    Alan Brown (Scottish politician) (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
    his maiden speech on 22 June, in which he quoted the poem Is There for Honest Poverty by Robert Burns. In 2016, Brown was one of 58 Scottish MPs who voted...
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  • "She Was Poor but She Was Honest", sometimes known as "(It's the Same) the Whole World Over" or (more rarely) by other names, is a traditional seriocomic...
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    covered by the Scottish folk trio The McCalmans on their 1993 album Honest Poverty "I Feel Like Buddy Holly" - 4:04 (written and produced by Mike Batt)...
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    Marjorie. Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship: So Much Honest Poverty in Britain, 1870–1930 (Springer, 2015). Mommsen, Wolfgang J., and Wolfgang...
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