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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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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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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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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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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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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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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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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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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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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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