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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
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
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Domination Down Moral Reflection Smile
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
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
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
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time

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

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