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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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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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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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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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Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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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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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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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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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
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