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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

Brendan Behan

You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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Cost General Living Mind War
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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Beer Summer Winter
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
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Criticism Editors Funny
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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Saint Theatre Two Years
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Critics Eunuchs Themselves

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

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