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
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  2. Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth? - Simon Bolivar

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More Quotes By Finley Peter Dunne
  1. The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

  2. Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

  3. 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.

  4. Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

  5. 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.

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