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William Butler Yeats Quotes: A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
         

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.


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