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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.
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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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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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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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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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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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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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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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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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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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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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