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| Finley Peter Dunne
"In me younger days 'twas not considered respectible f'r to be an athlete. An athlete was always a man that was not sthrong enough f’r wurruk. Fractions dhruv him fr'm school an' th' vagrancy laws dhruv him to baseball."A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary. Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. Don't jump on a man unless he is down. High finance ain't burglary, an' it ain't obtaining money under false pretenses, an' it ain't manslaughter. It's what ye might call a judicious selection from th' best features of them arts. It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it. The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here. The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better – it is just turning around as usual. 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. There are no friends at cards or world politics. To say, "Give up that city or we shall take it from you" is not at all persuasive. Trust everybody, but cut the cards. |
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