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

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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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

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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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

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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

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It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

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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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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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

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

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There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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