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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.

O. Henry

Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
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
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

Call Deal King Right Yourself
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
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
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

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