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Among men, Hinnissy, wet eye manes dhry heart.

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Life'd not be worth livin' if we didn't keep our inimies.

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Th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf.

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I know about marredge th' way an asthronomer knows about th' stars.

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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.

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Though I have patches on me pantaloons, I've ne'er a wan on me intestines.

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

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Whin a man's sick, he's sick an' nawthin' will cure him or annything will.

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If you live enough before thirty you won't care to live at all after fifty.

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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

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I think a lie with a purpose is wan iv th' worst kind an' th' mos' profitable.

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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.

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No wan cares to hear what Hogan calls "Th' short an' simple scandals iv th' poor."

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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

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I've seen a game iv cards start among frinds, but I never see frinds in a game iv cards.

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I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription?

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The mission of a modern newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

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

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Ivry sick man is a hero, if not to th' wurruld or aven to th' fam'ly, at laste to himsilf.

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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He knew th' facts iv th' case.

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

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Mickrobes is a vigitable, an' ivry man is like a conservatory full iv millyons iv these potted plants.

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Hogan's r-right whin he says: "Justice is blind." Blind she is, an' deef an' dumb an' has a wooden leg.

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'Tis as hard f'r a rich man to enther th' kingdom iv Hiven as it is f'r a poor man to get out iv Purgatory.

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This home iv opporchunity where ivry man is th' equal iv ivry other man befure th' law if he isn't careful.

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No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

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Miracles are laughed at be a nation that r-reads thirty millyon newspapers a day an' supports Wall sthreet.

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No matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that now and then he can have a good opinion of himself undisturbed by the facts.

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I don't think we injye other people's sufferin', Hinnissy. It isn't acshally injyement. But we feel betther f'r it.

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