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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

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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Journalist
Screenwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
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Comfort
Comfortable
Stories
Afflict
Afflicted

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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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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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It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
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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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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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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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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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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