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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
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
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
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
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

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