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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

It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
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
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
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
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
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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

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

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