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

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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
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
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
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
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
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship

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

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