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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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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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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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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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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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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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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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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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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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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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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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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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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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
Finley Peter Dunne
