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William Butler Yeats Quotes: I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.
         

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.


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