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By having much, you are fitted to have more.

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Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

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We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.

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Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

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A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.

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Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.

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A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.

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The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.

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To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.

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God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: February 2nd, 1882

Died: December 26th, 1950

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