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

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It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

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

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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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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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 sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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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 holiday in a new dresscan earth offer anything more enchanting?

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

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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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

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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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

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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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