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

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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
O. HENRY

Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
O. HENRY

Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. HENRY

Invisible Strand Woman
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
O. HENRY

Lamp Myself Stand
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
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
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
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

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