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William Butler Yeats Quotes: We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love
         

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love


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