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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

O. Henry

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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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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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Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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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Expectation Ocean World
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
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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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way

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