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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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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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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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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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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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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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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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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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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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If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York
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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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