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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

O. Henry

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
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
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.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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.
O. HENRY

Ethnicity Identity Race State
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY

Achieve Climate Ourselves
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRY

Bright Charm History Home Man Women
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
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
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
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

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