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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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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
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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
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
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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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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

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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