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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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Chicago
Illinois
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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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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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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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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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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A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.
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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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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