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Nasrudin, "I just heard a guy call another fellow a liar. And that fellow said that if he didn't apologize, he would whip him."
"Well, why should that make you so sad?" asked the first.
"BECAUSE," said Nasrudin, "THE GUY APOLOGIZED."
156.
It was the 'better part of town' and the lady who came to the door said to Mulla Nasrudin: "I should think you would be ashamed to beg in this neighborhood."
"DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR IT, LADY," said Nasrudin, "I HAVE SEEN WORSE."
157.
"It certainly is hard," said the sad individual "to love one's relatives."
"HARD? " said Nasrudin. "HARD? IT IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!"
158.
The editor of the local newspaper was beside himself. He said to Mulla Nasrudin in the teahouse: "What are we going to do for our front page tonight? Nothing scandalous has happened in town for almost twenty-four hours!"
"TAKE IT EASY " said Nasrudin. "SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN. YOU SHOULDN'T LOSE FAITH IN HUMAN NATURE, SIR."
159.
"This sure is a lousy party," a guest at a cocktail party said to Mulla Nasrudin, who was next to him. "I am going to finish this one and then get out of here."
"I WOULD TOO," said Nasrudin, "BUT I HAVE GOT TO STAY. I AM THE HOST."
160.
A guest at a concert turned to Mulla Nasrudin sitting next to him and criticised the voice of the woman who was singing.
"What a terrible voice," he said. "Do you know who she is?"
"Yes," said the Mulla. "She's my wife."
"Oh," said the embarrassed guest, "I beg your pardon. Of course, it is not her voice that is bad, it is that awful song she has to sing. I wonder who wrote it."
"I DID," said Nasrudin.
161.
A drunk cowhand rushed into a bar waving and firing his guns at random and shouting, "All you dirty, lousy skunks get outta here."
Within a minute everybody had scattered and disappeared except Mulla Nasrudin, who sat at the bar finishing his drink.
"Well," barked the cowhand, waving his smoking gun. "What about it?"
"My," said the Mulla, "THERE WERE CERTAINLY A LOT OF THEM, WEREN'T THEY?"
162.
Mulla Nasrudin always said:
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