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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

James Joyce

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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Hypocrite People
God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Devil Food God Human
You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Death Shine Sun Yourself
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Artist Beautiful Creation
All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Funny Sad
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Establishment Inspirational Passion Work
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Dream History Truth
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Family Love Mom World
Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Book Life Reading
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
Thought is the thought of thought.
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Deep One Liner Thinking
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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Eyes Heart Love Mad
O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Men Mind Understand
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Ideas Thinking
There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Friendship Old
Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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Difficult Men Religion Woman

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

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