"Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers……" — Finley Peter Dunne
"Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write."
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Finley Peter Dunne
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51 Quotes by Finley Peter Dunne
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones…
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of…
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in -…
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A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is…
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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,…
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