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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
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
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine

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