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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
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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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young 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

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