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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.

O. Henry

By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

Call Deal King Right Yourself
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.
O. HENRY

Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. HENRY

Invisible Strand Woman
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
O. HENRY

Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
O. HENRY

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

Cash Live People Time
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRY

Art Himself Respect Time
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRY

Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
O. HENRY

Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRY

Accident Friendship
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRY

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

Lamp Myself Stand
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY

Darkness Home Light Myself
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
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

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.

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