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QUOTATION:Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
ATTRIBUTION:James Connolly (1870–1916), Irish syndicalist, Republican leader. Labour in Irish History, foreword (1910).
 
 
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