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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

O. Henry

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
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill 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
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
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
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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Anand Thakur
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
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
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Domination Down Moral Reflection Smile
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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