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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.

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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

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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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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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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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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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If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

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No friendship is an accident.

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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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