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...original motto of Scotland's Order of the Thistle is: Nemo me impune lacessit (No man provokes me with impunity). Rough translation of Reader Henderson's paraphrase: "No one may milk me without paying the piper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1952 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...pull Sir John's leg was made by another, more humorous, Scot, Austin Hopkinson, M. P. "Will not the Right Honorable Gentleman," he suggested, "take it upon himself to order that all third class eggs shall be rubber stamped with the Scottish national motto: Nemo me impune lacessit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'Third Class Eggs | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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