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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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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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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Myself Secret Story Writing
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
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
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
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste

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