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" Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. "

William Butler Yeats

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" You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. "

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" When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. "

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" I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. "

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" The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. "

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" How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. "

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