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Owen says my book will be forgotten in 10 years; perhaps so, but, with such a list [of prestigious scientific supporters], I feel convinced that the subject will not.
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'Did they dare, did they dare, to slay Owen Roe O'Neil?' 'Yes, theyslew with poisonhimthey feared tomeet with steel.' 'May God wither up their hearts! May their blood cease to flow! May they walk in living death, who poisoned Owen Roe!'

thomas osborne davis

— 1842  'Lament for the Death of Owen Roe O'Neil'.

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Sagest in the council was he, kindest in the hall: Sure we never won a battle'twas Owen won them all. Had he lived, had he lived, our dear country had been free; But he's dead, but he's dead, and 'tis slaves we'll ever be.

thomas osborne davis

— 1842  'Lament for the Death of Owen Roe O'Neil'.

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. See Owen 632:57.


— Odes, bk.3, no.2, l.13.

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Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

john kenneth galbraith

— Chapter 1, p. 30 (On Robert Owen)

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Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.


— John Kenneth Galbraith (1977) The Age of Uncertainty, p. 30 (On Robert Owen)

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Alone until she dies, Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse, smelling of the cowshed, snores bass and gruff on a couch of straw in a loft in Salt Lake Farm and picks a posy of daisies in Sunday Meadow to put on the grave of Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking and never kissed her again although she was looking all the time.

dylan thomas

— Under MilkWood (1954)

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