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Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable

Posted by ESC on May 30, 2006

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: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable

Comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable. "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." -Finley Peter Dunne, "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900. Found on Quoteland.com at quoteland.com/ Accessed on April 9, 2003.

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