Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
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I love you as New Englanders love pie.
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Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents, which started to happen to somebody else.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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.
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