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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
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
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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Anand Thakur
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
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
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

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