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" I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. "

William Butler Yeats

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" An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. "

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