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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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

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

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There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts; the interchange of ambitions--ambitions interwoven each with the other's or else inconsiderable--the mutual help and inspiration; and--overlook my artlessness--stuffed olives and cheese sandwiches at 11 p.m.

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

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

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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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

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

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

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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

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

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

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

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