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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.

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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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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 may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.

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