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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

Rule Writing 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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
O. HENRY

Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. HENRY

Gold Greatness Wash
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
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HENRY

Ourselves Road Travel Way
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
O. HENRY

Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRY

Love Man Poverty Taste War
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY

Conversation Existence Taste
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.
O. HENRY

Ethnicity Identity Race State
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?
O. HENRY

Expectation Ocean World
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY

Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
O. HENRY

Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power

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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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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