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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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