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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.
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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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 past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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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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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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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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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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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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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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