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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!

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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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
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
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
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
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic

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