It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
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It would need a great deal of wisdom to know what it is we want to know.
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We . . . are no petty people. We are of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.
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Words alone are certain good.
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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
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