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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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Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
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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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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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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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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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Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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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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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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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A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
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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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Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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