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" Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. "

John Boyle O'Reilly

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" Luck is believing you're lucky. "

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" The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice. "

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" In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed. "

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" That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? "

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" Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman. "