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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

~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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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

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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.

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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: June 13th, 1865

Died: January 28th, 1939

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