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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Cash Live People Time
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
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
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
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
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
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
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

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