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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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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
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
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
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
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word

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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