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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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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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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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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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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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 man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.
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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
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