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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't 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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Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
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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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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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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