The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.
This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.
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