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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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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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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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If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

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

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

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

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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

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

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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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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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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

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