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

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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
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
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
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman

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

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