William Butler Yeats - Books are but waste pap...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

William Butler Yeats

Irish Poet

Born: Jun 13, 1865

Died: Jan 28, 1939

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Wisdom, Conversation, Weary, Pride, Thought, Nothing, Action, Living, Design, Unless, Spend, Books, Paper, Dead, Repair, Get, May, Asleep, Who, Waste

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