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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
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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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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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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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