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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. "
Lady Gregory
Punishment
Birth
Well
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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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History
Irish
Born
" It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death. "
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Time
Race
Gentle
" I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it. "
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My Own
Good
Theatre
" The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide. "
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Strong
Back
Blood
" What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation. "
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Drama
Great
Country
" I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night. "
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World
Dark
Fall
" 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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Poetry
Better
Great
" It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters. "
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Beautiful
Irish
House
" 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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Stars
Sickness
Moon
" 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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America
London
Irish
" Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God. "
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I Am
God
More
" It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland. "
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Mist
People
Men
" 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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Earth
Egg
Hard
" It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't. "
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Toothbrush
Who
Use
" From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages. "
Lady Gregory
Over
Birds
Death
" I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it. "
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Strength
Good
I Am
" In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement. "
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Good
Work
Theatre
" There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk! "
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Roots
Earth
Cry
" It takes madness to find out madness. "
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Madness
Find
Out
" To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade. "
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Judge
Good
Week
" When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment. "
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Time
Body
Death
" 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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Dead
Play
Writing
" I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland. "
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Time
Spent
Ireland
" There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth. "
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Earth
Found
Heaven
" 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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Dress
Old
Out
" Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again. "
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Country
Great Man
Man
" I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it. "
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Charity
Run
Present
" It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show. "
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Them
Always
Most
" 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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Man
First
Him
" 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. "
Lady Gregory
Something
Queen
Loyal