63 Quotes by Finley Peter Dunne

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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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    To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn’t wear oncomf’rtable clothes.

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    A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.

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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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    A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

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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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    Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

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