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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Finley Peter Dunne
Age: 68 †
Born: 1867
Born: July 10
Died: 1936
Died: April 24
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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
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Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.
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A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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A man's idee in a card game is war
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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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