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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

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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No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.
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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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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
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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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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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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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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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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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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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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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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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A man's idee in a card game is war
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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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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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