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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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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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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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
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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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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
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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 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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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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