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

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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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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
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
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
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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

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

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