Finley Peter Dunne

Puzzles

• ___ was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
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• The duty of newspapers is to comfort the ___ed and to ___ the comfortable.
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• ___ is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
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• The only good ___ stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Finley Peter Dunne?

  • → If you go to the zoo, always take something to feed the animals, even if the signs say "Do Not Feed Animals." It wasn't the animals that put the signs up.
  • → To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
  • → Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
  • → A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Finley Peter Dunne.

  • → None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
  • → You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.
  • → Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
  • → Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Finley Peter Dunne.

  • → May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
  • → Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
  • → The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
  • → A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Finley Peter Dunne. Which one?

  • → It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
  • → Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
  • → I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you never can read his prescription.
  • → We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Finley Peter Dunne?

  • → Nothing is more unfair than to judge the men of the past by the ideas of the present.
  • → Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
  • → Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
  • → Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Finley Peter Dunne?

  • → One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.
  • → In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
  • → Many a man that could rule a hundred million strangers with an iron hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway when he comes home late at night.
  • → Never murder a man who is committing suicide.
  
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