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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
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
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
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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