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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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
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
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
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
I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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Myself Secret Story Writing
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
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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