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I inclined
To lose my faith in Ballyrush and Gortin
Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.
He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance.

— Patrick Kavanagh

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I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.

In country places a single word is inflected to mean a hundred things, so that only a recording of the sounds gives an idea of the speech of these people.

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'Begod there's a powerful piece of turnips'

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With women in general he was truthful and sincere and would talk philosophy or Canon Law (Canon Law fascinated him, though what he knew of the subject was utter nonsense) to them on the slightest provocation. Women cannot understand honesty in a man.

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I do not know what age I am,
I am no mortal age;
I know nothing of women,
Nothing of cities,
I cannot die
Unless I walk outside these whitethorn hedges.

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