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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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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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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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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 past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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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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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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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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