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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Brendan Behan

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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Country Funny Irish People Spiritual
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt 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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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Funny Marriage Sexy
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
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Determination Men Suicide
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Made Miserable Situation
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Hands Life Modern Toss
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company’s time and with its blessing.
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Blessing Husband Marriage

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