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A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.


Louis MacNeice

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LOUIS ZAMPERINI Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
LOUIS BONAPARTE A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I ho...
LOUIS XIV You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills ...
LOUIS XIV That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.
LOUIS XIV Always follow good counsels.
LOUIS XIV The Pyrenees are no more.
LOUIS XIV My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered on...
LOUIS XIV Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
LOUIS XIV I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness ...
LOUIS XIV We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.
LOUIS XIV I am dying, but the state remains.
LOUIS XIV It is impossible to please all the world.
LOUIS XIV I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
LOUIS XIV My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, ...
LOUIS XIV Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.
LOUIS XIV The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves a...
LOUIS XIV First feelings are always the most natural.
LOUIS XIV Fortune favors the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR Art is anything people do with distinction.
LOUIS DUDEK Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had bee...
LOUIS L'AMOUR My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothe...
LOUIS BACON For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biograph...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates ...
LOUIS PASTEUR Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were ...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG