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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.
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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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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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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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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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