d know
it'd be, 'It's a nice day f'r a dhrive to th' cimitry. Did he
lave much?' No man is a hayro to his undertaker."

Hypocrisy

"It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be
pretendin' he was. But I don't think they'se anny such thing as
hypocrisy in th' wurruld. They can't be. If ye'd turn on th' gas
in th' darkest heart ye'd find it had a good raison for th' worst
things it done, a good varchous raison, like needin' th' money or
punishin' th' wicked or tachin' people a lesson to be more careful,
or protectin' th' liberties iv mankind, or needin' the money."

History

"I know histhry isn't thrue, Hinnessy, because it ain't like what
I see ivry day in Halsted Sthreet. If any wan comes along with a
histhry iv Greece or Rome that'll show me th' people fightin',
gettin' dhrunk, makin' love, gettin' married, owin' th' grocery
man an' bein' without hard-coal, I'll believe they was a Greece
or Rome, but not befure. Historyans is like doctors. They are
always lookin' f'r symptoms. Those iv them that writes about their
own times examines th' tongue an' feels th' pulse an' makes a wrong
dygnosis. Th' other kind iv histhry is a post-mortem examination.
It tells ye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what
it lived iv."

Enjoyment

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

Gratitude

"Wan raison people ar-re not grateful is because they're proud iv
thimsilves an' they niver feel they get half what they desarve.
Another raison is they know ye've had all th' fun ye're entitled
to whin ye do annything f'r annybody. A man who expicts gratichood
is a usurer, an' if he's caught at it he loses th' loan an' th'
intherest."

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