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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.

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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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
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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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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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