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

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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude 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
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman

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

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