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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

Samuel Butler
Circles, Squares, People
Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.