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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
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
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRY

Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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.
O. HENRY

Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
O. HENRY

Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
O. HENRY

Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY

Dominate Life Smile
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. HENRY

Invisible Strand Woman
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
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
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
O. HENRY

Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRY

Love Man Poverty Taste War
No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRY

Accident Friendship

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