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William Butler Yeats

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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 you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.


— William Butler Yeats


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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.


— William Butler Yeats


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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.


— William Butler Yeats


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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.


— William Butler Yeats


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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.


— William Butler Yeats


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But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?


— William Butler Yeats


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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.


— William Butler Yeats


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How can we know the dancer from the dance?


— William Butler Yeats


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


— William Butler Yeats


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