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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.

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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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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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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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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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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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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The past always looks better than it was it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
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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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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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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.
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No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.
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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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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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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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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
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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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