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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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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
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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

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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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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