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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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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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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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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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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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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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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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's idee in a card game is war
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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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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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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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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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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
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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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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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