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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

O. Henry

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY

Dominate Life Smile
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
O. HENRY

Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
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.
O. HENRY

Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
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.
O. HENRY

Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
O. HENRY

Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
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 a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
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
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRY

Love Marriage
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY

Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRY

Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
O. HENRY

Anand Thakur
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

Rule Writing Yourself
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
O. HENRY

Clear Couch
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HENRY

Happiness Life Perfection

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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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