Irish Permanent Building

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    “The Irish say your trouble is their
    trouble and your
    joy their joy? I wish
    I could believe it;
    I am troubled, I’m dissatisfied, I’m Irish.”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A publisher is a specialised form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cope with life and are therefore forced to write about it.”
    —Colin Haycraft (b. 1929)