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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Country Many People Say Trouble
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Die Fresh Generation Immortal Men Necessary Plutocracy Rained Service
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Age Hit Less Need Old People Person Tragedy Upon Vigorous Youth
Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Certainty City Country Largest Modern One Pair Pleasentest
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Bad Courage Form From Pugnacity Very
In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Adult Children Death Everything Kill Play Preparation Ridden Rule Spirit Time
We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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All Cookies Ever May Sick Sicker Too
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Industry Mmiddlevest North Season Writer
Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Always Business Fine General Large Meaningless Relate Romance Term
So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Do Industrious Iron Lazy Man Mayne Middle Pay Soul War Weel
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Back Country Dream Far Found Herself Main Snatch Street
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Amn Another Been Civilized Completely Ever Known never Nobody Possible Thousand Year
God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Around Catch Creep Disobey Done God Much never Try
You have more people that love you than you know.
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Know Love More People You
Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Arrange Country Course Cruelty God Indeed Must Priest System Theology
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Country Dozen Fictioneer Insane May Most People Person Poet Tradition Young

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