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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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