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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like 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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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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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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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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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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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
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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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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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