"But" is to me a more detestable combination of letters than "no" itself. "No" is a surly, honest fellow, speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptious sort of a conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips.
Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
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