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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

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness 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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
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
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing 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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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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