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The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage, may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste.
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Speech (3 March 1926), Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate), on the Coinage Bill.

 

William Butler Yeats

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