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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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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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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

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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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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