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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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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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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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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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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
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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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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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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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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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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