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Women’s weapon, water-drops.

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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
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 story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold 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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman

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