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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

O. Henry

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
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
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.
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Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
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
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
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
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
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

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