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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class.... I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says “there is no wisdom without leisure.” - William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. Speech, March 28, 1923, to the Seanad Eireann, the Irish Senate.

Categories: Leisure, Playwright

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