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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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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
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
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
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
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
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
O. HENRY

Tears Weapon Woman

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