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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

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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Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
Hypocrisy
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Thing
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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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Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
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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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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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