• I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

  William Butler Yeats
  Irish poet 1865-1939
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. destroyed
2. comfort
3. harlots
4. drink

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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. by : William Butler Yeats

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