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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.

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
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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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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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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A man's idee in a card game is war
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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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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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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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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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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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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