"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."
-William Butler Yeats
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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.“
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"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."
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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."
-William Butler Yeats
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"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right."
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"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."
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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."
-William Butler Yeats
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"A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano."
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"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
-John Millington Synge
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"That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?"
-Lara Flynn Boyle
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"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff."
-James Joyce
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"Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to."
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-Liam Neeson
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