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Treasury of Quotations Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Inspired by a walk through St. Patrick's Park the idea creating this puzzle was born.

As usual you don't find the fitting container for the solution of this puzzle at the given coords, but of course you can go there to manage your own literal walk along the plaques.


From Alpha to Omega, from the beginning to the end. A to Z means nothing at first sight. But in the right order letters form sillables and words and give meaning to something. If they are arranged in a special way they make sense:

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.
Flann O'Brien 1911 - 1966

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1814 - 1873

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
Jonathan Swift 1667 - 1745

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Thomas Moore 1779 - 1852

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again, Fail again, Fail better.
Samuel Beckett 1906 - 1989

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernhard Shaw 1856 - 1950

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith 1730 – 1774

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900

Love loves to love love.
James Joyce 1882 - 1941

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Seamus Heaney 1939 - 2013

When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan 1923 - 1964

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
George William Russell 1867 - 1935

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert Lynd 1879 - 1949

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

svefg - ynfg; gur ynfg dhbgngvba erfhygf va frira, gur frpbaq vf abg guerr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)