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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

Brendan Behan

When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
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
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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
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
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Differences History Men
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

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