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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
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
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
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
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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 was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
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
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

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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