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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
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True

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