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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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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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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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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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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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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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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
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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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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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