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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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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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

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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

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

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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

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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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

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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

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