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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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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
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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 live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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Anand Thakur
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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