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"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

Bernadette Devlin, Irish Politician

Gain, May, Worth

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"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

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"It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament."

"My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done."

"I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence."

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