Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
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Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
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John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
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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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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have s
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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