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More and more, people seem to be recognizing that honesty is the foundationstone on which all else depends.
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That Conference laid the foundationstone of great developments in Imperial co-operation.
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I abandoned my plans on discovering that our young men, not yet educated by Mr. Birrell’s University,18 would certainly shout down every one they disagreed with, and that their finance was so extravagant that we must content ourselves with a foundationstone and an iron rail to protect it, for there could never be a statue; while she carried out every plan she made.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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I abandoned my plans on discovering that our young men, not yet educated by Mr. Birrell’s University,18 would certainly shout down every one they disagreed with, and that their finance was so extravagant that we must content ourselves with a foundationstone and an iron rail to protect it, for there could never be a statue; while she carried out every plan she made.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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I abandoned my plans on discovering that our young men, not yet educated by Mr. Birrell’s University,18 would certainly shout down every one they disagreed with, and that their finance was so extravagant that we must content ourselves with a foundationstone and an iron rail to protect it, for there could never be a statue; while she carried out every plan she made.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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I abandoned my plans on discovering that our young men, not yet educated by Mr. Birrell’s University,18 would certainly shout down every one they disagreed with, and that their finance was so extravagant that we must content ourselves with a foundationstone and an iron rail to protect it, for there could never be a statue; while she carried out every plan she made.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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