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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
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The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. (4.14-15)
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But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous rebus (12.32-33)
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But toms will till. I know he well.
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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? A Successful Career in the Civil Service.
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Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.
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Boor, bond of thy herd,Tonight stretch full by the fire!
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The pity is the public will demand and find a moral in my book - or worse they may take it in some more serious way, and on the honor of a gentleman, there is not one single serious line in it.
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Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. (4.15-17)
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Can you nei do her, numb? asks Dolph, suspecting the answer know. Oikkont, ken you, ninny? asks Kev, expecting the answer guess. (286.25-27)
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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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Again!
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The sly reeds whisper to the nightA name - her name -
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She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.
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Three quarks for Muster Mark! (383.1)
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.