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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.
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 [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
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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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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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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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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't 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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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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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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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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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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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Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.
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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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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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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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