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• Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Night, Men, Helping

  Mr. Dooley in Peace and inWar "On Charity" (1898)

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• 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

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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.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  History, Examination, Posts

  Finley Peter Dunne (1976). “Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish: The Autobiography of a Nineteenth-century Ethnic Group”, Catholic University of Amer Press

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• It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Education, Work, Humorous

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• 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

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• A man's idee in a card game is war

  Finley Peter Dunne

  War, Men, Games

  Finley Peter Dunne (1919). “Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Necessary Evils ...”

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• Trust ivrybody-but cut th' cards.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Trust, Cutting, Cards

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• The last man that makes a joke owns it.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Humor, Men, Lasts

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• The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Eagles, People, Insulting

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• A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Worst Enemy, Games, Play

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• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Vices, You Like It, Creatures

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

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• When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  War, Winning, Men

  Finley Peter Dunne (2015). “Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War”, p.42, The Floating Press

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• Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Running, Comfort, Doe

  "On Newspaper Publicity" (1902)

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• What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, News, Another Man

  Finley Peter Dunne (1903). “Observations by Mr. Dooley”, p.48, Library of Alexandria

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• Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Vices, Creatures

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• If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Care, Fifty, Enough

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley on Ivryting and Ivrybody”, Dover Publications

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• Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Englishmen

  'Revolution'. Collected in Louis Filler (ed) The World of Mr Dooley (1962).

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