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

O. Henry

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
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.
O. HENRY

Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
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
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
O. HENRY

Best Move Picture Round World
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRY

Air Hot Show Vote Way
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRY

Love Marriage
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.
O. HENRY

Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

Call Deal King Right Yourself
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRY

Cash Live People Time
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
O. HENRY

Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY

Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY

Conversation Existence Taste
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. HENRY

Invisible Strand Woman
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY

Achieve Climate Ourselves
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
O. HENRY

Reflection Study Woman
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
O. HENRY

Business Family Love Man Religion Starve

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