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A man's idee in a card game is war

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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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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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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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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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There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
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