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No friendship is an accident.

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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
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
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
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
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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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Ethnicity Identity Race State
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
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch

No friendship is an accident.

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