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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

O. Henry

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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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
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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
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
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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