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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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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Myself Secret Story Writing
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World

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