Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
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I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.
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Englishmen have very noble and excellent qualities which I should like to see imitated here, but I should not like to imitate them in everything. I like our own habits and character better, they are more consonant to my nature I like our own turn of thought, our own characteristics, and above all I like our own language.
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What we want in Ireland is a National University which will bring students together and educate them upon national lines.
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