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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

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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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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Myself Secret Story Writing
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
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
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
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World

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