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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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
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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

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