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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
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman 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
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
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
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
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
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
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself

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