Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. (William Butler Yeats)

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.

William Butler Yeats

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