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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

O. Henry

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
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
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
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
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
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
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
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 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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
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

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