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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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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Domination Down Moral Reflection Smile
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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
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
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

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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