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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
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May
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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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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
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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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
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A man's idee in a card game is war
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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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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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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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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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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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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 game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
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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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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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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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