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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness 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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study 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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Domination Down Moral Reflection Smile
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
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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

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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