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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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Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
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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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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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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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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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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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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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
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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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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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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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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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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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A man's idee in a card game is war
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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 care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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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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