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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
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
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
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
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship

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