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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.

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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
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
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
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
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
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
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

When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.

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