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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

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He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

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(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

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An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

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While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

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What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

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Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

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A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.

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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

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There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

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The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

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By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.

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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

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