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“Trust everybody, but cut the cards.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Trust #Cutting #Father Son
“The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Time #Past #Looks
“Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Funny #Running #Witty
“A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Lying #Purpose #Kind
“An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Court #Appeals #Shows
“If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Christian #Nursing #Doctors
“The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Usual #World #Growing
“To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Clothes #People #Savages
“The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Wise #New York #Men
“That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Flags #Return #Constitution
“A man's idee in a card game is war”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#War #Men #Games
“It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Angel #Humanity #Monkeys
“High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Art #Finance #Burglary
“When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Running #People #Musical
“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.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Thinking
“There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Science #Facts #Week
“What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Men #News
“It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Hypocrisy #Good Things #Be Good
“Trust ivrybody-but cut th' cards.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Trust #Cutting #Cards
“A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Running #Wall #Support
“If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Care #Fifty #Enough
“Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Vices #Creatures
“Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Focus #Cost #Guests
“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.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Wise #Money #Men
“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.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Giving #Thanks #Culinary
“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.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Opportunity #Night #Men
“What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Marriage #Wife #Instinct
“No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Flags #Matter #Return
“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.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Men #Drug #Mind
“I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.”
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Business #Men #Contact

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