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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.
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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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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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 goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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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 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
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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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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
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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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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A man's idee in a card game is war
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