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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

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

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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

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