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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Cash Live People Time
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True

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