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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
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

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