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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.

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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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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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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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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