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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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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
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
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
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
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
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
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
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

He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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