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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
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
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
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves

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