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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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Myself Secret Story Writing
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
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
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
O. HENRY

Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY

Dominate Life Smile

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