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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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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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
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
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
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
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

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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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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