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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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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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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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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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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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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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 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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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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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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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Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like 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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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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A man's idee in a card game is war
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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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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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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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