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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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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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
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
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
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
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
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
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 burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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

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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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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