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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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Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
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Men
Winning
War
May
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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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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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
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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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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
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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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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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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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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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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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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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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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