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"It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?"

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."

"All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect."

"A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words."

"For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds."
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"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."

"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."

"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."

"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."

"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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