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" A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. "
Hot
Air
Way
" 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. "
Try
Treasure
Live
" By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. "
Am
Choice
Nature
" By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal. "
King
You
New
" East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. "
West
San Francisco
East
" If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry. "
Funny
Alone
Never
" I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer. "
American
Like
Life
" I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty. "
Time
Reading
Before
" Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. "
Conversation
Dough
Few
" It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist. "
Only
Days
Farmer
" It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. "
Old
New York
New
" It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it. "
Love
Said
Dinner
" It'll be a great place if they ever finish it. "
Finish
Ever
Place
" Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. "
Smiles
Up
Life
" Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! "
Art
Words
Man
" She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). "
Invisible
Woman
She
" The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212. "
Men
Good
Children
" There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. "
Thanksgiving
American
One Day
" The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. "
Greet
Forth
Fate
" The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune. "
Fortune
Meadows
Eye
" Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark. "
Want
Turn
Lights
" We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. "
Weather
Achieve
Environmental
" 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. "
Personal
Hands
Man
" When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. "
Loves
Art
Hard
" Write what you like; there is no other rule. "
Rule
Write
You
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