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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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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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

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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