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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
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
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 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
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
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
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 was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves

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