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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
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
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 true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True

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