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Curran said to Father O'Leary,
the wittiest priest of his day, "I wish you were St. Peter." "Why?" asked
O'Leary. "Because," said Curran, "you would have the keys of heaven, and could
let me in." "It would be better for you," said O'Leary, "that I had the keys of
the other place, for then I could let you out."
From W.R. LeFanu's "70 Years of Irish Life," 1896