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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

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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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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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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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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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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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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