

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
― The Collected Poems
― The Collected Poems

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― The Song of the Lark
― The Song of the Lark

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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