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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.

O. Henry

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
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
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
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship

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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