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It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
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It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
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There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?
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Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
March 15, 1852
Died:
May 22, 1932
(aged 80)
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