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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
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
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
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place

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