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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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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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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Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye 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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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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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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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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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
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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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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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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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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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