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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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Chicago
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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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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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 care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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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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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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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
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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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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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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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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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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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