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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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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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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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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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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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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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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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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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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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
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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 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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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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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
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