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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
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
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
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

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