Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus.

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  There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

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  Like the generations of leaves, so are those of men.

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  Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

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  Every generation, no doubt, believes itself called to remake the world. Mine knows that it will not remake it.

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  I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

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  Capitalism is unequally distributed wealth, and socialism is equally distributed poverty. But the saying is not quite right, for Bolshevism distributes even poverty unequally.

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