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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
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
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Domination Down Moral Reflection Smile
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
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

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