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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 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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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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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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