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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 13173 |
| QUOTATION: | Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Connolly (1870–1916), Irish syndicalist, Republican leader. Labour in Irish History, foreword (1910). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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