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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

Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. HENRY

Gold Greatness Wash
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
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
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
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
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

Rule Writing Yourself
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.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Cash Live People Time
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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

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

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