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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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There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
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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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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
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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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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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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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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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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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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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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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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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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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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
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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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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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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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