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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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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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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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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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