Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?