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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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There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
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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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Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
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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 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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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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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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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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A man's idee in a card game is war
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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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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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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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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