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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
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
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
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
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
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship

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