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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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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
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
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time 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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
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
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
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
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste

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