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A quote from Brendan Behan on the Irish, “If we didn’t have bad luck, we’d have no luck.”

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The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.

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There is no need like the lack of a friend.

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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

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“Laughter is good for the soul – laughter soft, or loud or deep, tinged through with seriousness…the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”  Sean O’Casey

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After Ian Paisley had delivered one of his fiery “hell and damnation” sermons warning sinners that there would be ‘gnashing of teeth,’ one elderly woman said, “But Reverend, I don’t have teeth.” To which the Reverend Paisley replied, “Teeth will be provided.”

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“I can’t think of a case where a poem changed the world, but what they do is change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.”  Seamus Heaney

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A lock is better than suspicion.

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“Life does not cease to be funny when people die anymore than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”  G. B. Shaw

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“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising everytime we fall,” Oliver Goldsmith.

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