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If Irish were to die completely, the standard of English here, both in the spoken and written word, would sink to a level probably as low as that obtaining in England and it would stop there only because it could go no lower.

— Brian O'Nolan The Best of Myles (1968)

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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.

At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

The Hair of the Dogma (1977)

Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

The Best of Myles (1968)

"Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable."

The Third Policeman (1967)

"Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder."

The Dalkey archive (1964)

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