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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.
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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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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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 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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.
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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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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 is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
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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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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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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 wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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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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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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