I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which I should feel if, after a life passed in England or the colonies or India, I were to come back to my native mountains and find that the indifference or the actual discouragement of our leaders had succeeded in destroying the language of my childhood. - Douglas Hyde

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Douglas Hyde: "I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which I should feel if, after a life passed in England or the colonies or India, I were to come back to my native mountains and find that the indifference or the actual discouragement of our leaders had succeeded in destroying the language of my childhood."

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Colonies	Conceive	Destroying	Discouragement
England	Feel	Find	India
Indifference	Inflict	Language	Leaders
Life	Mountains	Native	Pain
Passed	Power	Sentiment	Succeeded

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