Irish Houses of Parliament/the D%C3%A1il Chooses A Different Home

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    “The Irish ... are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.”
    —Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)

    “Nothing will be left white but here a birch,
    And there a clump of houses with a church.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body.... It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.”
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    “Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.”
    —Freda Adler (b. 1934)

    “Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”
    —Norman Douglas (1868–1952)