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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

O. Henry

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing 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
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise 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
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
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.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself

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