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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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
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
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
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
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
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash

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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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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