"The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man."

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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.

— Geoffrey Chaucer