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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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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
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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 burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect 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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
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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Decent Home Limitation Right 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
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power

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