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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

O. Henry

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
O. HENRY

Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY

Conversation Existence Taste
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.
O. HENRY

Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HENRY

Happiness Life Perfection
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.
O. HENRY

Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold 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
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

Call Deal King Right Yourself
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRY

Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
O. HENRY

Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. HENRY

Fair Move Soul Wire
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRY

Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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

Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals

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