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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
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
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
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
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
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote 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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