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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

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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Journalist
Screenwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Fifty
Thirty
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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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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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