The editor of the Sunday Herald and Alex Salmond were wrong to call me author of the slogan Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation'. I found it in a long poem by the Canadian author, Dennis Leigh.
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Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation
An essay by Alasdair Gray
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