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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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash

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