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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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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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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
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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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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
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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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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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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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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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