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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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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
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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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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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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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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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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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
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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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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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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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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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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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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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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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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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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