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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
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
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
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
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young

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

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