Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway - Runs along the shores of the Forth from the small town of Bo'ness to the Fireclay Mines at Birkhill. Travel By steam train, and be transported back to a bygone age.
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-- Beau Brummel Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Travel and Tourism Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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-- Quentin Crisp There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
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Luck is the residue of design.
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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
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When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
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I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
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-- Jerry Seinfeld It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
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I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Travel and Tourism An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
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-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
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-- Caroline Rhea Travel and Tourism
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-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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