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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
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
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
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
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
It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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

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