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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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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
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
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
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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
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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
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
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

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