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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

O. Henry

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
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.
O. HENRY

Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
O. HENRY

Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
O. HENRY

Animal Communication Human Talk Together
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. HENRY

Fair Move Soul Wire
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
O. HENRY

Creativity Pill Story
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.
O. HENRY

Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
O. HENRY

Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

Call Deal King Right Yourself
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY

Art Love Oneself Service
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
O. HENRY

Clear Couch
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.
O. HENRY

Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
O. HENRY

Best Move Picture Round World

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