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A holiday in a new dresscan earth offer anything more enchanting?

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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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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

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

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

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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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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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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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

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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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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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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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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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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

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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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