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The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.
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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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.
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There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
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All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.
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Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
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