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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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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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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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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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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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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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
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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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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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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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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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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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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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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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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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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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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