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It's easy to identify tourists on Edinburgh's Royal mile.
They're the ones bound in knitted scarves, wearing puffa jackets and woolly hats no matter the time of the year.
When the wind whistles around the New Town's handsome Georgian streets, their stoic faces show the effort of turning away from its bite.
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― The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way
― The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way
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The most prominent middle-class groups were not directly involved in relations of production with the manual working class, but were engaged in the professions, wholesale and retail distribution, commerce and finance. The industrial structure was itself heterogeneous, with a considerable amount of smaller-scale labour-intensive industry and a consequent diffusion of ownership.
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― The Labour Aristocracy in Victorian Edinburgh
― The Labour Aristocracy in Victorian Edinburgh
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