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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.

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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Domination Down Moral Reflection Smile
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
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
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

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