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

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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
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 story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
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
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
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
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
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 I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story

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

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