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Catholic Wisdom

A 98-year-old Mother Superior from Ireland was dying. The nuns
gathered around her bed trying to make her last journey
comfortable. They tried giving her some warm milk to drink but she
refused it.

One of the nuns took the glass back to the kitchen and
remembering a bottle of Irish Whiskey received as a gift the
previous Christmas, she opened it and poured a generous amount into
the warm milk.

Back at Mother Superior's bed, she held the glass to her
lips. Mother drank a little, then a little more and before they
knew it, she had drank the whole glass down to the last drop.

"Mother," the nuns asked with earnest, "please give us some
wisdom before you die."

She raised herself up in bed and said, "Don't sell that cow."