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W.B. Yeats Quotes: People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
         

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.


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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
         



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