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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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
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
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
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage

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