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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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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
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
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
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
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
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

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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