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

Lamp Myself Stand
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
O. HENRY

Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
O. HENRY

Anand Thakur
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRY

Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
O. HENRY

Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
O. HENRY

Animal Communication Human Talk Together
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

Call Deal King Right Yourself
No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRY

Accident Friendship
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRY

Cash Live People Time
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.
O. HENRY

Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
O. HENRY

Gift Knowledge Wisdom
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY

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

Fair Move Soul Wire
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRY

Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
O. HENRY

Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRY

Art Himself Respect Time

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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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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