I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in c...

I have certainly 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.

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W. B. Yeats

Also know as William Butler Yeats

Irish poet and playwright

June 13th, 1865 - January 28th, 1939

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