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William Butler Yeats Quotes

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class.

Source:Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Damage to Property (Compensation) Bill, March 28, 1923.
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William Butler Yeats Quotes
  • Name: William Butler Yeats
  • Profession: Poet, Writer, Dramatist
  • Born: June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939
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