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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.

O. Henry

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
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
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
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
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
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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

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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