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William Butler Yeats Quotes: The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
         

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.


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