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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself

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