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It takes madness to find out madness.

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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

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Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.

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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.

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It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.

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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

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It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: March 15th, 1852

Died: May 22nd, 1932

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