If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
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By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.Don Marquis
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
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He is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which start out to happen to somebody else.
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Human wandering through the zoowhat do your cousins think of you.
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You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you Well, that's what's happening to me right now.
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