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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

O. Henry

Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
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.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True

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