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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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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

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

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You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

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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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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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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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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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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

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

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

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

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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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

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We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

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