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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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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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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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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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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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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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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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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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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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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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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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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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 lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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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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