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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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Chicago
Illinois
Fifty
Thirty
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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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
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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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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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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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