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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.

O. Henry

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
It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
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
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
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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Anand Thakur
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
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
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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