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Famous quotes containing the words irish, confederate, wars and/or rebellion:

    “Earth, receive an honoured guest:
    William Yeats is laid to rest.
    Let the Irish vessel lie
    Emptied of its poetry.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    “Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery. Nothing else holds fashion.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)