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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
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
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
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right 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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

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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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