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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.

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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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
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
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

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