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No friendship is an accident.

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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
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
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
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
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
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
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
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
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
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

No friendship is an accident.

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