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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Day Exception Kindness
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Defeat Lose Motivational Win
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Poem Time
We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Appearance Complete Creation Generation Himself
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Answer Philosophy

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