Baron Offaly/barons Offaly First Creation 1554-1599

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    I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going.
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    We live by our imaginations, by our admirations, by our sentiments. The child walks amid heaps of illusions, which he does not like to have disturbed. The boy, how sweet to him his fancy! how dear the story of barons and battles! What a hero he is, whilst he feeds on his heroes! What a debt is his to imaginative books!
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    Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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