The Crock of Gold

people were always well received, and their perplexities were attended to instantly, for the Philosophers liked being wise and they were not ashamed to put their learning to th

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ons saving only those of high rank, such as policemen, gombeen men, and district and county councillors; but even to these they charged high prices for their information, and a bonus on any gains which accrued through the following of their adv

nuff. After a time they became interested in the problems which these people submitted to their parents and the replies or instructions wherewith the latter relieved them. Long training had made the children able

hat his intention was to die as quickly as might be. It was, he continued, an unfortunate thing that his health was at the moment more robust than it had been for a long time, but

d been leading was an arid and unprofitable one, that he had stolen her fourteen hundred maledictions for which he had no use and presented her with a

est of all virtues is curiosity, and the end of all desire is wisdom; tell u

recapitulation of old and wearisome ideas. There is no longer an horizon before my eves. Space has narrowed to the petty dimensions of my thumb. Time is the tick of a clock. Good and evil are two peas in the one pod. My wife's face

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to be nice to your wife, nor how to get up first in the morning and cook the breakfast. Have you learned how to smoke strong tobacco as I do? or can you dance in the moonlight with a woman of the Shee? To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. It has occurred to me, brother, that wisdom may not be the end o

my latter days I am reduced to playing on the tambourine and running after a hag in the moonlight, and

w moments his movements became steady and swift, and a sound came from him like the humming of a swift saw; this sound grew deeper and deeper, and at last continuous, so that the room was filled with a thrilling noise. In a quarter of an hour the movement began to

rism whether the good is the all or the all is the good. In another moment he would have become oblivious of the room, the company, and the corpse, but the Grey Woman of Dun Go

happiness. Our brother is dead - bury him." So saying, he returned his eyes to his nose, and his mind to his maxim, and lapse

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ommenced to take off her boots. She stood in the

and more rapidly until she was a very fervour of motion, and in three-quarters of an hour (for she was very tough) she bega

thstone, and then, with some trouble, detached her husband from his meditations. When he became capable of ordinary oc

led in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton.