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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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
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
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
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
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
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

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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