"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner."
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Source: William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.102, Penguin
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