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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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 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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman 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
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
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
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 good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women

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