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Finley Peter Dunne

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Trust everybody, but always cut the cards.


— Finley Peter Dunne


#humor

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.


— Finley Peter Dunne


#library #libry #humor

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.


— Finley Peter Dunne


#cannibals #classified #eat #like #look

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


— Finley Peter Dunne


#does #facts #fanatic #knew #lord

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.


— Finley Peter Dunne


#lie #most #profitable #purpose #worst

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.


— Finley Peter Dunne


#life #money #most #need #never

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.


— Finley Peter Dunne


#bachelors #considerate #get #get married #good

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.


— Finley Peter Dunne


#appeal #ask #contempt #court #show

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.


— Finley Peter Dunne


#jump #man #unless

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.


— Finley Peter Dunne


#afflicted #comfort #comfortable






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(for example QPB Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson ). He was then with the Chicago News from 1884–88 the Chicago Times in 1888 the Chicago Tribune in 1889 the Chicago Herald in 1889 and the Chicago Journal in 1897. "[citation needed]
The American performance artist Karen Finley is a distant relative of Dunne's.

Dunne's sly humor and political acumen won the support of President Theodore Roosevelt a frequent target of Mr. Dooley's barbs. He publiFinley Peter Dunned Mr.

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