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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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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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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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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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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

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Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

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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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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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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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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

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

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

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

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

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We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

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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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