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

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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
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
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
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
I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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Myself Secret Story Writing
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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

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