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

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

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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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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

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The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

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

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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 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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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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