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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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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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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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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
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If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
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