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Finley Peter Dunne [1867-1936] American
Rank: 101
Journalist, Writer


Finley Peter Dunne was an American humorist and writer from Chicago. In 1898 Dunne published Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley sketches. 

Food, Good, Marriage, Time, Trust



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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.
101
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. Time
102
Trust everybody, but cut the cards. Trust
103
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Good
104
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. Marriage
105
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
106
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. Food
107
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
109
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
110
There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
111
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
112
Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
113
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
114
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
115
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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