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The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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