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| W. B. Yeats
The intellect is forced to choose: Perfection of the life, or of the work. |
| Louis MacNeice
In doggerel and stout let me honour this country though the air is so soft that it smudges the words. |
| Samuel Butler
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. |
| Sigmund Freud
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. Notes: About the Irish |
| Katherine Tynan Hinkson
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful. |
| Sean O'Casey
A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other. |
| W. B. Yeats
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. |
| Sir John Pentland Mahaffy
In Ireland, the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs. |
| Author unknown
A man without a blackthorn stick is a man without an expedient. |
| George Bernard Shaw
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. |
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