I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumbbell and foil To keep the body young. Oh, who could have foretold That the heart grows old?
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W.B. Yeats Quote
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
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