Graceful Legend Quotes by Douglas Hyde

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• It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and…
• By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us…
• Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
• I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried
• The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is…
• As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence…
• I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked…
• Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

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