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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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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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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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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Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
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