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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 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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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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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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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A man's idee in a card game is war
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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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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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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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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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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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