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

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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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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

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

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