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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.

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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
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
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
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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

Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.

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