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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

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Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

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Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

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I am proud to be an emotionalist.

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That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

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Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

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Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

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A nation is the same people living in the same place.

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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

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When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

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All human history moves towards one great goal

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[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

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It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.

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My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

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Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer evenings was beautiful but with the pale passionless beauty of a pearl. Your love has passed through me and now I feel my mind something like an opal, that is, full of strange uncertain hues and colours, of warm lights and quick shadows and of broken music.

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