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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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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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.
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Clear Couch
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
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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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic

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