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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.

Finley Peter Dunne

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Finley Peter Dunne
Age: 68 †
Born: 1867
Born: July 10
Died: 1936
Died: April 24
Author
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
War
May
Best
Thing
Men
Winning

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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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
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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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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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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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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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