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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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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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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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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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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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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
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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 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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