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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

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

Clear Couch
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
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
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
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.
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Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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 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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship

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