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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
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
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
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
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon 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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

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