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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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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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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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

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

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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in 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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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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

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Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.

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

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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

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

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

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

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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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