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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.
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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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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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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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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