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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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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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
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
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
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste

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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