The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
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The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.John Millington Synge
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
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Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.
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