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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

O. Henry

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 are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
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
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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