| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 65810 |
| QUOTATION: | It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class.... I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says “there is no wisdom without leisure.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. Speech, March 28, 1923, to the Seanad Eireann, the Irish Senate. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Yeats Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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