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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
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
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.

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