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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
Thing
Men
Winning
War
May
Best

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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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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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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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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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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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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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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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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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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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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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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