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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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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
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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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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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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 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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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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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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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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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A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
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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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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