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> [If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-o-faolain/if-we-turn-to-early-irish-literature-as-we-naturally-may-to-see-what/)

[Sean O Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-o-faolain/)

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> [“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cahill/well-they-may-not-be-civilized-but-they-are-certainly-confident-and/)

[Thomas Cahill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cahill/)

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