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No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
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
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 good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
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
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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

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