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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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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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
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
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time

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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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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